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mitosis

[mahy-toh-sis] / maɪˈtoʊ sɪs /
NOUN
cell division
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Using a powerful, high-resolution genome mapping method, the team found that small 3D loops -- connections between regulatory DNA elements and genes -- remain intact even during cell division, a stage known as mitosis.

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

In their new study, the MIT team found that during mitosis, microcompartments are more likely to be found near the genes that spike during cell division.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

Most animal cells undergo 'open' mitosis, in which the nuclear envelope -- the two-layered membrane separating the nucleus from the rest of the cell -- breaks down when cell division begins.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

When the time for swarming comes, and the old queen prepares to leave with her part of the population, it is as though the hive were involved in mitosis.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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