New work describes vital aspects of diffusion processes in tissue development, including the roles that molecular diffusion gradients have on stem cell signaling pathways along with new modeling tools ...

Diffusion plays an unexpected role in cell differentiation during the early stages of development in the embryos of Drosophila, or fruit flies, researchers have found. Instead of spreading a molecular ...

Gradients of molecular signaling factors play an essential role in numerous events in embryonic development, from patterning limb and organ formation to the intricate shaping of the brain and ...