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17 October 2025
Getting Closure
As organs and tissue develops cells must neatly fuse to close up gaps. Failure to fuse can lead to defects such as cleft palate. This study of the developing chick's ear finds and characterises (molecularly and functionally) a previously unidentified transient cell population – dubbed otic epithelial edge cells – that mediates the fusion process
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- Image from work by Varsha N. Tamilkumar, Harsha Purushothama and Raj K. Ladher
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, GKVK PO, Bangalore, India
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in and on the cover of Biology Open, September 2025
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