Embryology

Yeah.

I was just at ESHREV, right? It's the European Society of Reproduction and Embryology.

It's a humongous conference.

And even then, within the scientists, the professors, they were arguing.

MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS.

ORPHOLOGY, EMBRYOLOGY, RUDIMENTARY ORGANS.

classification groups subordinate to groups natural system rules and difficulties in classification explained on the theory of descent with modification classification of varieties descent always used in classification analogical or adaptive characters affinities general complex and radiating extinction separates and defines groups morphology between members of the same class between parts of the same individual embryology laws of explained by variations not supervening at an early age and being inherited at a corresponding age rudimentary organs their origin explained summary classification from the most remote period in the history of the world organic beings have been found to resemble each other in descending degrees so that they can be classed in groups under groups this classification is not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations the existence of groups would have been of simple significance if one group had been exclusively fitted to inhabit the land and another the water one to feed on flesh another on vegetable matter and so on but the case is widely different for it is notorious how commonly members of even the same subgroup have different habits in the second and fourth chapters on variation and on natural selection i have attempted to show that within each country it is the widely ranging the much diffused and common that is the dominant species belonging to the larger genera in each class which vary most the varieties or incipient species thus produced ultimately become converted into new and distinct species and these on the principle of inheritance tend to produce other new and dominant species consequently the groups which are now large and which generally include many dominant species tend to go on increasing in size I further attempted to show that from the varying descendants of each species trying to occupy as many and as different places as possible in the economy of nature, they constantly tend to diverge in character.

This latter conclusion is supported by observing the great diversity of forms which, in any small area, come into the closest competition, and, by certain facts, in naturalization.

A major institutional review by Jane and colleagues from the Raper Institute of Medical Sciences outlines exactly why this area is so treacherous for surgeons.

Yeah, the embryology stuff was fascinating.

It's wild, right? Embryologically, when a fetus is developing in the womb, the urinary tract and the genital tract develop from the exact same fundamental structure.

They start in the exact same place.

Exactly.

What was your journey like?

I finished uni with a Master's of Embryology, which is sort of one of the higher qualifications you, you can get, but also what you need now almost, 'cause it is a, a growing field.

But then once you start your job, you really are an apprentice, like, learning, you know, from the, the most basic procedures like creating a dish with the fluid in it that the embryos grow in and learning all about that right up until the point where you're biopsying cells out of an embryo to send away for genetic testing.

So there's such a massive, like, range of skills that are needed and knowledge that's needed to do what we do.