Tugging organs into place.
In this issue of Developmental Cell, Weavers and Skaer (2013) show that interplay between two opposing forces generated by tip cell attachment to muscles and migration of kink cells allows for the formation of the looped shape and positioning of renal tubules within the body of a fly larva.
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