Yasushi Saka: Stirring a melting pot of math and morphogens

Text and Interview by Ruth Williams Saka uses a combination of mathematical models, yeast, and frogs to investigate the action of morphogens. In a developing embryo, seemingly identical cells are directed to different fates by the combination of signals they receive. When the signals come from

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Cell Biology

• Publication date

  2008-06-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1083/JCB.1815PIPMCID 2396802
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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