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Nature Cell Biology 6, 285–287 (1 April 2004) | doi:10.1038/ncb0404-285

A helicase that gets Oskar's message across

Ilan Davis

Messenger RNA localization and the translational repression of unlocalized mRNA have a pivotal role in patterning the future embryo within the Drosophila oocyte (Fig. 1).