The ligand Netrin mediates axon guidance through a combination of haptotaxis over short distances and chemotaxis over longer distances.

Biology is one of the most basic fields of science with direct application to humans. Our continued existence on planet Earth depends in large part on how we resolve problems of a biological nature.

Watanabe and his team used electron microscopy to examine unmyelinated axons in mice and determine whether the pearled pattern was the natural axon shape. Watanabe began his investigation by exploring ...

On the technical side, our lab uses a number of complementary approaches to identify and study genes controlling axon navigation ... bioinformatics to predict candidate genes and molecular biology ...