The people behind the papers – Vincent Mouilleau, Célia Vaslin and Stéphane Nedelec

As the vertebrate body axis extends, HOX genes are sequentially activated in axial progenitors to specify their identity. A new paper in Development addresses what regulates the tempo of this HOX expression in human progenitors. To hear more about the story, we caught up with the paper's two first authors, Vincent Mouilleau and Célia Vaslin, and their supervisor Stéphane Nedelec, Group Leader at the Institut du Fer à Moulin in Paris.