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The Role of Electrical Phenomena in Development

Sui Huang is a molecular biologist at the Institute for Systems Biology. He says if Levin's work holds up, many developmental biologists will be stunned to see that the construction of the body plan is centrally orchestrated by the brain. If the results can be replicated in other organisms, they could change our understanding of the roles of electrical phenomena and the nervous system in development.

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