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Nature Cell Biology 9, 253 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/ncb0307-253

Daughter leaves mother

Sin|[eacute]|ad Hayes

A defining characteristic of stem cells is their ability to divide asymmetrically into a self renewed mother cell and a differentiating daughter cell. Yamashita et al. (Science 315, 518–521; 2007) have recently shown that in the Drosophila male germ line differential centrosome inheritance regulates this process.