title: Cell-size maintenance: universal strategy revealed.
abstract: How cells maintain a stable size has fascinated scientists since the beginning of modern biology, but has remained largely mysterious. Recently, however, the ability to analyze single bacteria in real time has provided new, important quantitative insights into this long-standing question in cell biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Section of Molecular Biology, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: suckjoon.jun@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Suckjoon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jun
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Sattar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taheri-Araghi
mesh_terms: D016935:Caulobacter crescentus / Q000166:cytology; D002453:Cell Cycle; D048429:Cell Size; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000166:cytology; D004718:Saccharomycetales / Q000166:cytology
keywords: bacterial physiology; cell cycle; cell size control; cell size homeostasis; growth law