These cells are thus induced into a new fate, and may even generate other morphogens that signal back to the original cell.
It has been possible to measure directly the forces that the cells generate during the formation of the neural tube.
Sanyo, which uses different technology, says its cells can generate more electricity at higher temperatures, and require less energy to produce.
Some people envision a day when these cells generate replacement organs.
These sparsely scattered cells constantly generate granule cell neurons, which add to the total population.
But the transplanted cells lived for a just few months before petering out and never generated new cells.
How epithelial cells generate and maintain polarity remains unclear, but certain molecules have been found to play a key role.
Even now most biotechs have not fully accepted the implication that every cell in the body can generate an entire copy of the person.
Its purpose is to connect each cell in series, so that the electricity each cell generates can be combined.
Each cell can generate a daughter autocolony with exactly the same number and arrangement of cells as the parent colony.