Flatworms' minimalist approach to cell division reveals molecular architecture of human centrosome

Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have discovered that planarians, tiny flatworms fabled for their regenerative powers, completely lack centrosomes, cellular structures that organize the network of microtubules that pulls chromosomes apart during cell division.

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