The people behind the papers - Carlos Carmocho-Macorra and Benjamin Steventon

An essential process for embryonic vertebrate development is the elongation of the notochord via addition of cells on its posterior end and increased cell volume from the anterior. However, how this process is robustly controlled across the elongating structure is unclear. In a new study, Carlos Camacho-Macorra, Benjamin Steventon and colleagues combine mathematical and zebrafish models of notochord elongation to show that this is likely coordinated by mechanical force propagation. To learn more about how this paper developed and the people behind it, we talked to first author Carlos Camacho-Macorra and corresponding author Benjamin (Ben) Steventon, Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge, UK.