May 20, 2016
21. March 2016 Marcus' preview on the control of cell division orientation has been published in Developmental Cell.
Summary
A century ago, Oscar Hertwig discovered that cells orient their cleavage plane orthogonal to their long axis. Reporting recently in Nature, Bosveld et al. (2016) shed light on how, showing that NuMA/Mud localization at tricellular junctions provides mitotic cells with the memory of interphase shape used to orient cleavage plane.