how is your research going about how parts of the body grow longer rather than bigger when you’re developing from an

Question: how is your research going about how parts of the body grow longer rather than bigger when you're developing from an embryo
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Asked by jspironman to Jeremy on 16 Jun 2011.
- Jeremy Green answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  It is going really well! We are focusing mostly on the way parts of the face grow because I work within a Dental Institute, and we are making an atlas of where cells go to and come from when the face is developing. By the way of that, we found out how those ridges on the roof of your mouth get set up. Roughly speaking, two chemicals in the growing tissue interact and set up a kind of wave pattern. The same process is involved in spacing the hairs on your skin and some other things. Anyway, it is a very nice time for my lab right now because we are really making good progress, and that isn’t always the case.

Question: how is your research going about how parts of the body grow longer rather than bigger when you're developing from an embryo