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Yuan Lab and Collaborators Featured in Science

ย Djenoune L, Mahamdeh M, Truong TV, Nguyen CT, Fraser SE, Brueckner M, Howard J, Yuan S.
Cilia as Cellular Force Sensors During Embryogenesis.
Science 2023 Jan 6;379(6627):71-78. PMID: 36603098.

โ€œNearly 25 years of work by numerous groups have shown that cilia and flow in the organizer are absolutely essential for establishing body left-right asymmetryโ€, says Shiaulou Yuan, PhD, an investigator in theย Cardiovascular Research Centerย at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and senior author of the study. โ€œBut we havenโ€™t had the right tools or techniques to definitively study how this all works.โ€