She also investigates
how asymmetric cell division impacts on the cellular potential to give rise to multiple lineages in vivo.
«Although polarization and asymmetric cell division of zygotes to form the body axis is a common phenomena found in algae, mosses, and flowering plants, the origin of cell polarity and
how asymmetric cell division occurs have remained a mystery up to now,» says Dr. Minako Ueda, a lecturer at ITbM, Nagoya University and a leader of this research.
Not exact matches
The researchers set up a system to grow
asymmetric nerve
cells in an observation chamber and use live
cell imaging to track
how rabies virus particles are transported along the axons.
If the egg were indelibly etched with
asymmetric information that unequivocably determines development, the argument went,
how could two embryonic
cells be separated and still produce whole, intact, normal individuals?
The group succeeded in visualizing for the first time,
how the cytoskeleton of plant egg
cells is disassembled after fertilization and then reorganized to create a polarity in the
cell that eventually leads to
asymmetric cell division.