December 20
Posted by the Node, on 20 December 2012
Today’s recommended paper is:
Growing Microtubules Push the Oocyte Nucleus to Polarize the Drosophila Dorsal-Ventral Axis
Tongtong Zhao, Owen S. Graham, Alexandre Raposo and Daniel St Johnston (2012)
Science 336 (6084), 999-1003
Submitted by Andrew Renault:
“An example of purely basic research, using beautiful live imaging to overturn previously held ideas about how an oocyte nucleus is repositioned to break radial symmetry.”
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