Genetic switch underlies noisy cell division: 'Bimodal' signal determines a cell's get-up and go
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 11:21
in Biology & Nature
While scientists have spent the past 40 years describing the intricate series of events that occur when one mammalian cell divides into two, they still haven't agreed on how the process begins. Two seemingly contradictory theories may now be reconciled by a third theory.