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Buckling could trigger embryo morphogenesis – News-Medical.net
The embryo of an animal first looks like a hollow sphere. Invaginations then appear at different stages of development, which will give rise to the body’s structures (the brain, digestive tract, etc.).
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 14 2020
The embryo of an animal first looks like a hollow sphere. Invaginations then appear at different stages of development, which will give rise to the body’s structures (the brain, digestive tract, etc.). According to a hypothesis that dates back more than a century, buckling could be the dominant mechanism that triggers invagination – buckling being a term that describes the lateral deformation of a material under compression.
Although this explanati…
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