mitosis
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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
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
"It almost seems like this transcriptional spiking in mitosis is an undesirable accident that arises from generating a uniquely favorable environment for microcompartments to form during mitosis," Hansen says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
However, most fungi use a different form of cell division -- called 'closed' mitosis -- in which the nuclear envelope remains intact throughout the division process.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
Anything that disturbs mitosis is therefore a grave threat to the welfare of the organism affected and to its descendants.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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
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 Myers, W.
There were no dividing spermatogonia and few spermatocyte mitoses.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Stevens, Nettie Maria
Numerous mitoses could be considered an adequate proof of this process.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
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