Featured Articles
Each month we showcase exciting new cell migration articles from the literature. Access to featured primary research articles from journals in the Nature family is free for three months.
July 2008
Notch signalling: The long road to the aorta
Standfirst
Notch signalling drives the specification of endothelial precursors in somites and directs their migration toward the dorsal aorta, thus resulting in its three-dimensional assembly.
Original research paper: Dev. Cell 14, 890-901 (2008)
Actin nucleation: To CAP it off
Standfirst
The capping protein favours actin nucleation by the actin-related protein-2/3 complex thus increasing the rate of actin-based motility.
Original research paper: Cell 133, 841-851 (2008)