A group of researchers at the "Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona", part of the Spanish National Research Council (acronym CSIC in Spanish), at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Jacques Monod Institute of the CNRS (France) have made new findings that would explain how the development of the microtubule network inside embryonic cells is regulated. The study has just been published in the last issue of the journal Developmental Cell, part of the Cell group. The research has been performed in embryos of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and the results shed Light on how cells differentiate to become specialised. Although the Drosophila model has been used here, the researchers believe that this mechanism could be common to all vertebrates.

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