Tomomi Kiyomitsu showed that short metaphase asters create a halo-like cytoplasmic concentration of dynein around aster tips in medaka early embryos. In anaphase, dynein relocates from the halo to growing asters, promoting successful cytokinesis. #SpindleCroatia2026
New preprint from the lab!
How do tissue shapes influence cell fate decisions?
By manipulating brain organoid geometry, we show that lumen rounding directs apical progenitor division mode and promotes the emergence of basal progenitors.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Researchers say they have developed a new way to transplant healthy mitochondria into animals harboring defective versions—a strategy the team hopes could one day treat certain neurodegenerative disorders and inherited genetic diseases in people. https://scim.ag/4uND3mi
Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
📢ONLINE @natgenet.nature.com
📰DNA methylation influences human centromere positioning and function.
By Catalina Salinas-Luypaert, @dfachinetti.bsky.social, @naltemose.bsky.social and colleagues.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬Emerging Concepts in Cell Division Cycles 2026: From Early Development to Cancer & Aging
🗓️March 2–5, 2026
📍OIST, Okinawa, Japan
Join 20 world-leading experts exploring how cell division shapes life and disease
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