Image of the Day: Cell Orienteering
Epithelial cells in the sea squirt embryo have invaginations (indicated by the arrows) that appear to align their centrosomes (blue and red dots), keeping the cells oriented for their next division.
Aug 14, 2016
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES(See T. Negishi et al., “Physical association between a novel plasma-membrane structure and centrosome orients cell division,”eLife, 2016.)
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