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Signalling and endocytosis: Wnt breaks down on back roads

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How are Wnt signals made effective in only the right times and places? New studies of the asymmetrical influences of Wnt signals originating from a source show the importance of differential signal degradation and regulated endocytosis.

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Figure 1: Wingless signalling and pattern formation during fly embryogenesis.

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