Some highlights from this month include papers on the role of Scrambled protein in actin reorganization, asymmetric cell division in different cell types, the control of duplication of the spindle ...

has underscored the essential role of asymmetric cell division in animals ranging from single-cell organisms to multi-organ individuals 1. However, a major challenge is defining how the asymmetric ...

The symmetric division model predicts that the fate of each naïve T-cell is determined by the cytokines the dendritic cell produces: one cell, one fate. The asymmetric division model predicts that two ...

One way to achieve this is by asymmetric cell division (ACD), characterized by an unequal distribution of cellular cargo, resulting in divergent daughter cells already after the first division ...

We know that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) must negotiate a delicate balance between symmetric division and asymmetric division in order to maintain self-renewal of the HSC compartment and continued ...

“[The cells] become misshapen,” study coauthor Wang Xi, now at the National Institute of Singapore, told Science News, “but they’re still able to divide.” Confinement in tubes also slowed mitosis and ...