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.

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