To divide or not: a cellular feedback loop that enables new cells to make a fateful decision

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 10:32 in Biology & Nature

It is one of the wonders of nature: multiplying cells are able to precisely copy their genetic material, once and only once, and spatially segregate the resulting two sets of chromosomes when the time comes to separate into two “daughter” cells. Just in our blood system alone, we have about 500 million cells born in […]

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