Wing regeneration: Single-cell analysis sheds new light

Marco Milán

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.068

Wing regeneration: Single-cell analysis sheds new light

Curr Biol. 2022 Aug 8;32(15):R842-R844. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.068.

Author

Marco Milán¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: marco.milan@irbbarcelona.org.

PMID: 35944485
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.068

Abstract

The developing wing primordium of Drosophila displays a remarkable capacity to regenerate in response to different types of damage. A new study shows that this capacity relies on the activation of a pro-regenerative gene regulatory network in two distinct cell populations within the blastema.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Drosophila / genetics
Drosophila Proteins* / genetics
Single-Cell Analysis*
Wings, Animal / physiology

Substances

Drosophila Proteins