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Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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Precursor cells in the embryonic neural tube are organized in a specific striped pattern which depends on the signals they receive (left). Lehr and colleagues recreated this pattern in a cell culture dish by exposing stem cells to the same signals (right).

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