Blood vessel cells are instructed to form tube-like structures
Friday, September 5, 2008 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
How do blood vessel cells understand that they should organise themselves in tubes and not in layers? A research group from Uppsala University shows for the first time that a special type of 'instructor' molecule is needed to accomplish this...
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