How does the body produce the diversity in T-cell fates that are essential for immunity? The symmetric division model predicts that the fate of each naïve T-cell is determined by the cytokines the ...

Scientists have found a new role for proteins that play important roles in asymmetric division, which may play a role in tumor formation or neurodevelopmental disorders. Stem cells are the basic ...

In our February issue, Steven Reiner describes how lymphocytes make use of a highly unusual type of division to create two different kinds of cells: effector and memory. Here, you can see this ...

(A) The function of glsA appears to have been co-opted without change from an unknown function in the unicellular ancestor of Volvox, so that it is now part of a pathway (shaded green) that is ...

Stem cells are the basic material from which mature, specialised cells such as muscle and blood cells are produced -- this process is known as differentiation. One way that stem cells do this without ...

When killer T cells of our immune system divide, they normally undergo asymmetric cell division (ACD): Each daughter cell inherits different cellular components, which drive the cells toward divergent ...

T cell division is critical to understand because of its role in the immune response. There is a myriad of T cell subcategories with different responsibilities. A few subcategories include cytotoxic T ...

The ability of dividing cells to produce daughters with different fates is an important developmental mechanism conserved from bacteria to fungi, plants, and metazoan animals. Asymmetric outcomes of a ...

Scientists from Nagoya University and The University of Texas at Austin have unraveled a key mystery in the formation of stomatal cells in plants. Stomata are the holes on the surface of plants’ ...

Singapore, Feb. 27, 2018 - Stem cells are the basic material from which mature, specialised cells such as muscle and blood cells are produced -- this process is known as differentiation. One way that ...