Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells. During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the "pacemaker" controlling yeast cell division lies inside the ...

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 ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the ...

Instead, the daughter cells aren't typically round after division, and they are asymmetrical. Once thought to be a characteristic of stem cells, this work has suggested that asymmetric cell division ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester have discovered new details about how cells divide in living organisms, ...

Cell division does not universally involve cells rounding into spheres; instead, many cells divide without rounding, leading to asymmetric daughter cells differing in size and function.

If the cell rounds or not will determine if the daughter cells are symmetrical or asymmetrical, not just in terms of size and shape but also in function. Asymmetrical daughters may be headed for ...

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.

What am I looking at? This is a 3D video of a so-called HeLa cell.In this video, the cell’s actin filaments are labeled in orange. As the cell enters the first stages of cell division, you can see a ...

It has been known for several years that abnormal chromosome numbers lead to protein imbalances in the affected cells.