Not being the wrong size.
Size regulation is a never-ending problem. Many of us worry that parts of ourselves are too big whereas other parts are too small. How organisms--and their tissues--are programmed to be a specific size, how this size is maintained, and what might cause something to become the wrong size, are key problems in developmental biology. But what are the mechanisms that regulate the size of multicellular structures?
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology MS-140, Rice University, 6,100 South Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA. richard@bioc.rice.edu
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