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Nature 452, x (10 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/7188xa; Published online 9 April 2008
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- University of Exeter
- Exeter United Kingdom
Post-Doctoral Fellow
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Stanford, California
Making the paper: David Ginty & Takako Makita
Mammalian nervous systems resemble complex roadmaps, with projections from trillions of cells threading their way within and between tissues and organs. How these projections, or axons, find their way to their destination during development, and whether their fate is predetermined, has been a matter of intense scrutiny.
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