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When fate follows age: unequal centrosomes in asymmetric cell division

Jose Reina1, Cayetano Gonzalez2

  • 1Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB-Barcelona), Baldiri Reixac 10, Barcelona 08028, Spain.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
|July 23, 2014
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asymmetric cell divisioncentriolecentrosomestem cell

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