Tuning into cell signals that tell where sensory organs will form inside the ear
Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 05:35
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signalling pathway that designates the future location of the ear's sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists succeeded in activating this signal more widely across the embryonic tissue that becomes the inner ear. Patches of sensory structures began growing in spots where they don't normally appear...