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18 April 2026
Set by Boundaries
Our body may look symmetrical on the outside, but on the inside, our organs and tissues have a different pattern. Looking in early mouse embryo development, around the time of implantation, this study finds that epiblast cells (one of the early cell layers during the first divisions of the fertilised egg) orient according to tissue boundaries which facilitates activation of molecular signals – mechano-chemical feedback – resulting in the correct tissue pattern
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- Image from work by Takafumi Ichikawa and Pamela C. Guruciaga, and colleagues
- Department of Developmental Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO
- Published in Nature Physics, April 2026
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