Cells once thought passive are now seen as sculptors. Their choreography may explain how tissues form and fail. A new study ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly ...

They also divided asymmetrically to create daughter cells with a longer shape. Asymmetric division was found to be more likely in isomorphic cells. Would isomorphism in zebrafish translate to ...

Students are currently taught that during cell division, a ‘parent’ cell will become spherical before splitting into two ‘daughter’ cells of equal size and shape. However, the study reveals that cell ...

Once started, cell division normally proceeds through all the stages until two genetically identical daughter cells are formed. During this process, the chromosomes are connected to the poles of the ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms a compact X-shaped structure with two rod-like copies. How the cell ...

"You can literally see that DHX9 normally resides in the nucleus, but shortly after cell division, when the two daughter cells have formed, it gathers into droplets in the cytoplasm," Zhou explained.

But problems with the individual segments of division—things like copying DNA, repairing any damage, making sure each daughter cell gets the right number of chromosomes—can lead to mutations.

Cell division is a precise process ... “If a cell takes longer than normal to complete mitosis, then daughter cells will know that their mother struggled to execute mitosis and they’ll ...

But both daughter cells require specific and different ... to the "shortest wall rule," which normally governs plant cell division. While plant cells are expected to build the smallest – and ...

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 ...

Cell division is central to biology, but also to disease. Cell division is a high-fidelity physical process that ends with the separation into two daughter cells, a process known as cytokinesis.