Ace2 in Yeast Cells (VIDEO)

Rockefeller University

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When budding yeast cells divide, scientists have found that a gene regulator called Ace2 (yellow) is present only in half of the offspring, an observation that explains a key difference in how cells decide if they are ready to divide.

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