Three’s a crowd More than a century ago, the German biologist Theodor Boveri observed that cancer cells often had extra centrosomes, organelles essential for the segregation of chromosomes during ...

However, recent studies have indicated new roles for centrosomes in cytokinesis and cell-cycle progression. Is it possible that a common 'thread' connects all three sets of findings? Careful ...

Various subcellular constituents, including transcripts, native and misfolded proteins, centrosomes and DNA, segregate asymmetrically during cell division into individual daughter cells.

A recent Cell Reports paper by the Oxenius group (IMB) demonstrates a function of targeted centrosome inheritance during CD8 + T cell division for the generation of memory precursor cells.