How do our skeletons form during embryonic development? To approach this question, PhD student Dion Giovannone, research scientist Sandeep Paul and the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Gage Crump looked to our not-so-distant relative: the tiny, transparent zebrafish. Crump explains their latest findings, published in eLife, about how embryonic cartilage transforms into adult bone.

To read the Q&A, visit stemcell.keck.usc.edu/usc-stem-cell-scientist-gage-crump-gives-a-bare-bones-explanation-of-elife-skeletal-development-study.