{
  "id": 16745681,
  "title": "Lost and found: beer belly is a novel, ancient regulator of animal development",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/lost-and-found-beer-belly-is-a-novel-ancient-regulator-of-animal",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.24.761492v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) can provide new insights into the regulation of developmental processes by revealing unknown or overlooked genes. We identified a novel gene called beer belly (bebe) as a marker of a segment addition zone (SAZ) associated cell cluster in a single-cell atlas of the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Here we show that bebe is an ancient toolkit gene encoding a…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}