Asymmetric lysosome inheritance predicts activation of haematopoietic stem cells

When blood stem cells divide, organelles and factors associated with the cellular degradative machinery can be asymmetrically inherited by daughter cells (green: microtubuli, white: asymetrically inherited factor). Images courtesy: Florin Schneiter, D-BSSE, ETH Zurich (Nature, 573, 426–429)

Read a new publication in Nature 573pages 426–429 (2019)
Loeffler, D.,Wehling, A.,Schneiter, F.,Zhang, Y.,Müller-Bötticher, N.,Hoppe, P.,Hilsenbeck, O.,Kokkaliaris, K.,Endele, M.,Schroeder, T.
Asymmetric lysosome inheritance predicts activation of haematopoietic stem cells