Last fall I spoke with @MarkHanson, who was then in Bruno Lemaitre's lab, for EMBO's @ReviewCommons platform for refereed #preprints. I love this detail about how flies grow - I picture a tiny little bicycle pump in there somewhere:

'When flies eclode from the pupa they are soft and squishy and they “manually” inflate their wings by pumping air through their body and that inflates the cuticle in a way that there is room for the body to move around inside that shell.'
#Drosophila #InnateImmunity

https://www.reviewcommons.org/blog/models-oddballs-and-preprints-a-conversation-with-mark-hanson/