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an independent team of operatives who work together in a CELLULAR MANUFACTURING production environment.

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13 ( ANI ): Researchers have showed that when a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells there can be an uneven distribution of cellular organelles.

Genetically identical bacteria capable of behaving in different ways

If MCM loading isn't completed successfully prior to cell division, there'll be a risk of major DNA mutations and death for the resulting daughter cells.

Special Proteins Keep Stem Cells In Their Undifferentiated State

It also determines which of two daughter cells remains a stem cell and which will become a progenitor cell to replace or repair damaged tissue.

Stem cells use signal orientation to guide division, study shows

The protein seems to work by making sure the organelles are in the right locations so they can be divided between the daughter cells.

Scientists discover an unexpected influence on dividing stem cells' fate

But each time a stem cell divides, only one daughter cell matures into a specific cell type.

Cells' root: adult stem cells have a master gene

The rarity of adult stem cells relative to their differentiated daughter cells has, however, made them historically difficult to study.

Long-disputed theory about stem cell populations is resolved

Bioengineers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science developed a platform to mechanically confine cells, simulating the in vivo three-dimensional environments in which they divide, and found that, upon confinement, cancer cells often split into three or more daughter cells.

Single cancer cell can produce up to 5 daughter cells

The researchers showed that a gene named SAPCD2 influences cell division orientation and controls daughter cell fates in vivo.

Scientists discover mechanism that controls stem cell differentiation

Two types of stem cells exist in the fruit fly testis: One whose fate is to produce a daughter cell that matures into a full-fledged sperm cell and a daughter that stays as a stem cell (otherwise, in each division the tissue would lose a stem cell and quickly exhaust its capacity for renewal), and a second stem cell type that is a somatic, or non-sex, stem cell that similarly produces a daughter that stays as a stem cell, and another daughter that matures into a protective cell that flanks the maturing sperm cell in an encysting process.

Fruit fly sperm cells reveal intricate coordination in stem cell replication

Thus, each daughter cell would begin life no more or less worn out than the mother had been.

A Bug's Life: E. coli can't escape old age

When a stem cell divides into two, one daughter cell remains as an undifferentiated stem cell, thereby preserving that cell's potential for regeneration and repair.