Wnt signalling in development and disease
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Introduction Wnt signalling is implicated in numerous aspects of development, cell biology and physiology. this meeting brought together several leading scientists in the Wnt signalling field, who discussed their latest research in this rapidly growing discipline. the expanding number of diseases that are the consequence of mutations in components of the Wnt signalling pathway also attracted researchers with a more clinical interest. Many new insights were presented into
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