Fruit fly study digs deeper into poorly understood details of forming embryos
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:32
in Biology & Nature
Using fruit flies as a model to study embryo formation, scientists report in Nature Cell Biology that molecular breakdown of a protein called Bicoid is vital to normal head-to-tail patterning of the insect's offspring.
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