A Nervous Contraction
A collaborative study from the Saunders Lab and the Martin-Blanco Lab at the Molecular Biology Institute Barcelona, Spain, demonstrates how the contraction of a Drosophila’s ventral nerve cord during development is oscillatory and driven by the combined contractile efforts of individual cells.
Recent Featured Research
Finding order through repulsion
A collaborative study from the Saunders Lab and the Telley Lab at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, demonstrates how mechanical repulsive forces lead to precise arrangement of nuclei during development Learn more
Understanding the effects of aneuploidy
A review from Prof Rong Li and Dr. Jin Zhu outlines the the causes of aneuploidy and how it can affect cell behaviour and function. Learn more
