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Cell division

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Robust quantitative analyses of asymmetric division in certain cells in flies identify the major molecular players and, most interestingly, define a simple equation to explain this complex cellular process. See Letter p.280

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Figure 1: A mechanism for asymmetric cell division.

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  1. Cayetano Gonzalez is at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08028 Barcelona, Spain,

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