Researchers found that electric fields inside embryos guide migrating cells. The enzyme Vsp1 helps cells sense and respond to ...

Building and shaping an embryo requires the concerted effort of numerous signals and molecular interactions during development. One essential aspect of this process is collective cell migration, where ...

Researchers have identified endogenous electric fields in developing embryos that guide the migration of neural crest cells, ...

As an embryo grows, there is a continuous stream ... through mechanical stretching of a region known as the neural fold. As the cells in this region stretch, this causes activation of specific ...

Neural cells migrate from the neural fold to form the neural crest and then differentiate into the brain, spinal cord, PNS structures, and neurons. The cranial and spinal nerves of the PNS connect ...