The Battle of the Morphogens: How to Get Ahead in the Nervous System
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 15:00
in Psychology & Sociology
If you think today's political rhetoric is overheated, imagine what goes on inside a vertebrate embryo. There, two armies whose agendas are poles apart, engage in a battle with consequences much more dire than whether the economy will recover---- they are battling for whether you (or frogs or chickens) will have a forebrain.