This paper, which was published in Biochemistry, came out of my very first internship and subsequent student research assistant job at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Ulm University.

There, under the careful guidance of Prof. Melanie Philipp, I not only learned to hold a pipette but also to perform whole-mount in-situ hybridization experiments on zebrafish embryos: Colored dyes are used to stain tissues actively expressing a gene of interest in an otherwise translucent embryo. This way, gene expression patterns and embryo morphology can be studied in a single assay to open, literally, new viewpoints on early organ development.