The authors examine the role of Numb, a Notch inhibitor, in intestinal stem cell self-renewal in Drosophila during homeostasis and regeneration. This is an important study providing evidence of a Numb ...

A recent Cell Reports paper by the Oxenius group (IMB) demonstrates a function of targeted centrosome inheritance during CD8+ ...

How a single, naïve T cell can give rise to diverse progenies of effector and memory cells is not completely understood. One way to achieve this is by asymmetric cell division (ACD), characterized by ...

Placozoans are one of the most ancient branches of metazoans. These animals have a simple bodyplan with a dozen of cell types (Smith et al., 2014). The phenotypic similarity of placozoan haplotypes ...

A recent study strongly suggests that long-term immunological synapse-induced polarity leads to asymmetric cell division. During this process, Scribble is segregated away from PKCζ, the PKCζ ...

A biochemical reaction is the transformation of one molecule to a different molecule inside a cell. Biochemical reactions are mediated by enzymes, which are biological catalysts that can alter the ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said on Monday that the common shares of government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC) offer "large asymmetric ...

The final game of the NFL regular season, game No. 272 of the slate, will be the unofficial NFC North division title game between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. Detroit and Minnesota will ...

Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, ...

There were four available playoff spots and five division titles still up for grabs in the final two weeks of the season. There was plenty to play for in those remaining 10 games. Two of the four ...