Tissue patterning is an important process during embryo formation, which ensures that groups of cells are arranged in an appropriate manner that allows them to function properly. Tissue patterning is ...

Drosophila wing development is a paradigm for understanding how spatial information is conveyed by morphogen gradients to coordinate pattern formation and organ growth. Central to this process is ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 51 (Dec. 22, 2009), pp. 21707-21712 (6 pages) The dorsoventral (DV) patterning of the Drosophila embryo ...

Tissue patterning is an important process during embryo formation, as well in adult tissue, which ensures that groups of cells are correctly arranged to allow them to function properly. Many studies ...

The function of the genes that drive wing development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have now been clarified by researchers. This study unveils that the Dpp morphogen is necessary for wing ...

In an article published on September 5th in Biophysical Journal, the team of Associate Professor Kensuke Kawade at the Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience and National Institute for Basic ...

Like many developing tissues, the vertebrate neural tube is patterned by antiparallel morphogen gradients. To understand how these inputs are interpreted, we measured morphogen signaling and target ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria have discovered a key control mechanism that cells use to self-organize during early embryonic ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers examinea the effects of temporal morphogen gradient during neural induction (NI) on the formation of brain organoids. Study: Temporal ...

Albert Erives, associate professor in the University of Iowa Department of Biology, and his graduate student, Justin Crocker, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

It has been said that nothing requires an architect’s care more than “due proportions.” What is true of buildings is also true of bodies, though the means by which bodies achieve their proportions are ...