title: In search of Turing in vivo: understanding Nodal and Lefty behavior.
abstract: The Turing reaction-diffusion model proposes that short-range activators and long-range inhibitors can generate complex patterns. In a Science study, Müller et al. (2012) assess behavioral determinants of Nodal and Lefty, TGFβ-related molecules that constitute an activator/inhibitor system, and provide evidence that the factors indeed form a reaction-diffusion system.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. hamada@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hamada