Caltech researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 15:49
in Biology & Nature
PASADENA, Calif. -- For decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular protein -- a transcription factor -- that helps the embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, pattern tissues in a manner that depends on the levels of this factor within individual cells. ...