Leutner, Michael; Caspar Matzhold; Luise Ballach; Carola Deischinger; Jurgen Harnleiter; Stefan Thurner; Peter Klimek and Alexander Kautzky-Willer ...

Here we show that the bacterium Escherichia coli exhibits both lineage mortality and immortality. The outcome depends on a whether a balance is achieved between damage accumulation and the asymmetric ...