A collaboration between NCCR group leaders Gisou van der Goot and Marcos González-Gaitán shows that the anthrax toxin receptor plays a role in embryonic development, by orienting cell division along a precise axis, in a universal process that precedes tissue and organ formation.

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• Press release (UNIGE)
• Anthrax toxin receptor 2a controls mitotic spindle positioning, Nature Cell Biol.