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mitosis

[mahy-toh-sis] / maɪˈtoʊ sɪs /
NOUN
cell division
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Perhaps that’s the next phase of Coachella’s mitosis: Weekend 1 determines how Coachella is seen, and Weekend 2 is where that attention is extended, maybe even reshaped.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2026

Using their technique, the researchers also confirmed that larger structures such as A/B compartments and TADs do disappear during mitosis, as had been seen before.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 2025

Many of these loops allow genes to interact with distant regulatory regions -- sometimes millions of base pairs apart -- while others form during mitosis to pack chromosomes tightly.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 2025

"We went into this study thinking, well, the one thing we know for sure is that there's no regulatory structure in mitosis, and then we accidentally found structure in mitosis," Hansen says.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 2025

Working as lab partners, we had to separate the slides of onion root tip cells into the phases of mitosis they represented and label them accordingly.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Importantly, the researchers demonstrated that the stopwatch mechanism is switched "off" by many types of cancers, effectively allowing them to tolerate aberrant genomes that undergo longer and problematic mitoses.

From Science Daily Mar. 28, 2024

In interphase, the phase of the cell cycle between mitoses at which the chromosomes are decondensed, eukaryotic chromosomes have two distinct regions that can be distinguished by staining.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

Numerous mitoses could be considered an adequate proof of this process.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

For special purposes, for instance, the demonstration of mitoses, blood platelets, etc., other hardening reagents may be used with advantage: Sublimate, osmic acid, Flemming's fluid, and so forth.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

There were no dividing spermatogonia and few spermatocyte mitoses.

From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Nettie Maria Stevens




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