Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Complex cell behaviors in development: recent progress and emerging challenges. | Meeting report Complex cell behaviors in development recent progress and emerging challenges Magdalena Bak-Maier and Ana Stojkovic Address Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry School of Medical Sciences University of Bristol University Walk Bristol BS8 1TD UK. Correspondence Magdalena Bak-Maier. E-mail Published 29 June 2005 Genome Biology 2005 6 331 doi gb-2005-6-7-33l The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2005 6 7 331 2005 BioMed Central Ltd A report on the British Societies for Cell Biology and Developmental Biology Joint Spring Meeting University of Warwick Coventry UK 6-9 April 2005. A central issue that developmental biologists aim to understand is how a single cell goes on to generate many different cell types and how the resulting groups of cells organize themselves during development to produce specific structures. Central to this question is a deeper understanding of the genetic programs active in cells at any given time and the location of cells within the developing organism as well as the emergent properties and coordinated behaviors of cell groups that underlies all developmental processes and their evolutionary relationships. While cell biologists concentrate on understanding the molecular basis of individual cell function developmental biologists have generally aimed to understand developmental processes at the level of cell groups and how they influence each other in different developmental processes. Nevertheless as demonstrated by the research presented at this meeting the best answers to how organisms develop and function will undoubtedly come from the emerging integration and continuous interactions between the two levels of analysis. The benefit of this approach was well captured in the opening talk by Cornelia Bargmann Rockefeller University New York USA describing work on oxygen sensing in nematodes. In her model sensory inputs .
