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Cell division brought down to size

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Cells normally divide on reaching a fairly specific size, but how cell size dictates the timing of cell division remains obscure. In fission yeast, a spatial gradient of a cell-tip protein may provide an answer.

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Figure 1: A spatial gradient links cell size to cell division in fission yeast2,3.

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  1. Kenneth E. Sawin is at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK. ken.sawin@ed.ac.uk ,

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Sawin, K. Cell division brought down to size. Nature 459, 782–783 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459782a

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