If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that ...

Scientists have solved a decade-long question about the mechanism that preserves the centromere, the hub that ensures DNA ...

However, if a cell is long and thin it will usually generate asymmetrical daughter cells that are differently shaped. "The phenomenon of mitosis, or cell division, is one of the fundamentals of life ...

Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went Scientists find a "mitotic stopwatch" that lets individual cells remember something.

Because asymmetric cell division can cause cells to behave in ways cause them to metastasize, it change how we understand the division of cancerous cells and the spread of cancer, which could lead ...

In one of those cells undergoing meiosis, the DNA is replicated and two cycles of cell division then occur, which generates four daughter cells, gametes, with only half as many chromosomes as the ...

Until now, asymmetric cell division has predominantly only been associated with highly specialized cells, known as stem cells.

Cell division is therefore a fundamental biological process in which the replicated chromosomes of the mother cell are distributed equally to two daughter cells.

When a cell divides, the double helix of DNA is divided, as well. Centromeres coordinate the precise, nearly perfect matchmaking of the separated strands with their associated enzymes in each new ...