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Building from the bottom up

Time-lapse analyses of normal cellular behaviours and signalling by fibroblast growth factor (FGF) provide new insights into the cell motions and molecules that form the posterior nervous system.

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Figure 1: Erecting the posterior nervous system.

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Krull, C., Krumlauf, R. Building from the bottom up. Nat Cell Biol 3, E138–E139 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35078603

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