IMMUNOLOGY:
Asymmetry and Immune Memory
Dan R. Littman1 and Harinder Singh2
Asymmetric cell division of lymphocytes ensures that our adaptive immune system maintains a balanced production of two different types of T cells.
1D. R. Littman is in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. E-mail: littman{at}saturn.med.nyu.edu
2H. Singh is in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: hsingh{at}uchicago.edu