IRB Barcelona researchers Jens Januschke and Cayetano Gonzalez are the subject of the "In Focus" feature in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, published by the Rockefeller University Press.

In a research article published in the same issue, Gonzalez and Januschke show that brain stem cells called neuroblasts rely on the centrosome to store their orientation for division. A neuroblast normally divides so that the daughter cells emerge basally. But after the researchers depolymerized the neuroblast's microtubules, a daughter cell could emerge from other locations around the neuroblast.

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• Link to the "In Focus" feature