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A study reveals how cells communicate to activate the cell division machinery

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 05.05.2008

A study reveals how cells communicate to activate the cell division machinery

A study on the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, performed by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), housed at the Barcelona Science Park, unveils how distinct signaling pathways operate between neighboring cells in order to activate the cell proliferation machinery that results in the organized growth of the fly wing. The signaling pathways involved in this process are also conserved in humans, and when altered in diverse tissues give rise to the appearance of different types of cancer, including cancer of the colon and skin, and leukemia. The study has been undertaken in the Cell and Development Biology Laboratory headed by ICREA Research Professor, Marco Milán, at IRB Barcelona, and has been released in and advanced online format by the EMBO Journal.