In this month's Cell Podcast, we learn how designer techniques from synthetic biology are influencing the field of cell biology, with Wendell A. Lim and Wallace F. Marshall (0:00) (Trends in Cell Biology), how changes in specific genes triggered the evolution from fish fins to the limbs of vertebrates, with José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta and Fernando Casares (6:41) (Developmental Cell). Plus, sample a selection of the hottest new papers from Cell Press (13:42).
