/channels/news_feeds/all/term/vertebrae/rss en /channels/news/how-embryos-scale-vertebrae-219622 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>As embryos develop and grow, from a single-cell egg to a fully functional body, they must form organs that are in proportion to the overall size of the embryo. The exact mechanism underlying this fundamental characteristic, called scaling, is still unclear. But researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Montreal are one step closer to understanding it.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">21 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2012</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:24:53 +0000 webfull 89392 at /channels