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Mechanism Discovered That Controls Collective Cell Movements

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 04.04.2008

Mechanism Discovered That Controls Collective Cell Movements

A team working at the Barcelona Institute of Molecular Biology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (IBMB-CSIC), housed at the Barcelona Science Park, has found a mechanism that controls why cells migrate collectively. The findings, arising from studies of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), could hold the key to gaining a deeper understanding of the collective cell movements occurring in tissue repair, in the development of some tumours, and in a wide range of developmental processes. Led by researchers Enrique Martín-Blanco and Flora Llense, the research has been published this week in the online edition of the journal Current Biology, a publication of CellPress (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.03.029).