title: Control of organ size: development, regeneration, and the role of theory in biology.
abstract: How organs grow to be the right size for the animal is one of the central mysteries of biology. In a paper in BMC Biology, Khammash et al. propose a mechanism for escaping from the deficiencies of feedback control of growth as a mechanism.
authors.forename: Charles F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Stevens
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009929:Organ Size; D038081:Organogenesis; D012038:Regeneration; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology