title: Cellular signal processing: out of one, many.
abstract: Cells can make fate decisions in response to information from the environment. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Chen et al. (2012) describe how the design of a signal-processing pathway allows a homogenous population of cells to display diverse responses to uniform growth factor cues.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for BioDynamics and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Roshan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Collins