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09 October 2026
Tube Organiser
As an embryo develops structures take shape by invagination – the folding of cell surfaces in on themselves to create a tube or sac. To study this process, what better model organism than the sea squirt Ciona – basically a living, siphoning tube. Researchers find that bidirectional organisation of the cells' inner scaffold network of the protein actomyosin drives the invagination and shaping
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- Image from work by Jinghan Qiao and Pengyu Yu, and colleagues
- Ocean University of China, Qingdao; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in eLife, October 2026
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