Stem cells use signal orientation to guide division, study shows
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Cells in the body need to be acutely aware of their surroundings. A signal from one direction may cause a cell to react in a very different way than if it had come from another direction. Now, researchers have devised a way to mimic in the laboratory the spatially oriented signaling that cells normally experience.