Spring 2012 Newsletter of the Faculty of Life Sciences (The University of Manchester)
Left: Precise wiring of the nervous system. Right: The 1901 network of submarine telegraph cables
I wanted to show my photo - “A neuronal growth cone sets out
on its journey” - which is appearing on the cover of our Faculty of Life
Sciences newsletter. It is of a nerve cell taken from a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) embryo and
grown on a glass cover slip for easy visualisation. The cell body is at the
bottom, with an axon growing from it and ending in the growth cone (top).
