Repurposing Neural Crest Cells (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Repurposing Neural Crest Cells (1 of 6)

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Cranial neural crest cells (purple) delaminating from the forming central nervous system (red) to commence migration. Picture shows the dorsal view of the head of a chick embryo. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 24, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Marcos Simoes-Costa at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Reprogramming of avian neural crest axial identity and cell fate."

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Marcos Simoes-Costa

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