The battle of the morphogens: How to get ahead in the nervous system

Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 14:30 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.

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