Healthy Voice Production and Voice Care are subjects of growing concern nowadays. Knowing that many Voice Diseases result in asymmetric vibration, a method to estimate the percentage of asymmetry has been developed on the Glottal Source obtained by the inverse filtering of Voice. The asymmetric biomechanics is treated as a result of unknown sources which are separated using classical Independen...

Asymmetric cell division plays a major role in the generation of cell diversity during development. In this issue of Neuron, Sun and colleagues present evidence that the epidermal growth factor receptor is asymmetrically distributed in mitotic cerebral cortical precursors, and the resulting unequal inheritance generates offspring with different responsiveness to growth factor and unique cell fa...

The polarity of sensory bristles on the thorax of Drosophila is linked to the orientation of the asymmetric cell divisions that partition cell fate determinants in this lineage. The orientation of these divisions is under the control of the Frizzled pathway that generates planar polarity in a number of cell types.

Asymmetric cell division is a common concept to explain the capability of stem cells to simultaneously produce a continuous output of differentiated cells and to maintain their own population of undifferentiated cells. Whereas for some stem cell systems, an asymmetry in the division process has explicitly been demonstrated, no evidence for such a functional asymmetry has been shown for hematopo...