Nearly 60 years ago, Alan Turing showed theoretically how two chemical species, termed morphogens, diffusing and reacting with each other can generate spatial patterns. Diffusion plays a crucial part in transporting chemical signals through space to establish the length scale of the pattern. When coupled to chemical reactions, mechanical processes - forces and flows generated by motor proteins - can also define length scales and provide a mechanochemical basis for morphogenesis. forces and flows generated by motor proteins - can also define length scales and provide a mechanochemical basis for morphogenesis. © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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Howard, J., Grill, S. W., & Bois, J. S. (2011, June). Turing’s next steps: The mechanochemical basis of morphogenesis. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm3120
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