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A fateful age gap

Tim Stearns
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Tim Stearns: Stanford University, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, California 94305, USA. stearns@stanford.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 461, issue 7266, 891-892

Abstract: When a stem cell divides, one sister cell differentiates and the other retains its stem-cell identity. Differences in the age of an organelle — the centriole — inherited at cell division may determine these differing fates.

Date: 2009
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