Carole LaBonne: Neural Crest Cells and the Rise of the Vertebrates
The stunning pigmentation of tigers, the massive jaws of sharks, and the hyper-acute vision of eagles. These and other remarkable features of higher organisms (vertebrates) derive from a small group of powerful cells, called neural crest cells, that arose more than 500 million years ago. Molecular biologist Carole LaBonne of Northwestern University in Illinois …
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