How to make a lung: Cell-regeneration molecules essential signals for early lung development
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 15:14
in Biology & Nature
A tissue-repair-and-regeneration pathway in the human body, including wound healing, is essential for the early lung to develop properly. Genetically engineered mice fail to develop lungs when two molecules in this pathway, Wnt2 and Wnt2b, are knocked out. The findings are described this week in Developmental Cell.