How cells 'climb' to build fruit fly tracheas
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 14:40
in Biology & Nature
Fruit fly windpipes are much more like human blood vessels than the entryway to human lungs. To create that intricate network, fly embryonic cells must sprout "fingers" and crawl into place. Now researchers have discovered that a protein called Mipp1 is key to cells' ability to grow these fingers.