A surprising molecular switch: Lipids help control the development of cell polarity
Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
In a standard biology textbook, cells tend to look more or less the same from all sides. But in real life cells have fronts and backs, tops and bottoms, and they orient many of their structures according to this polarity explaining, for example, why yeast cells bud at one end and not the other.