mitosis
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To test this, they monitored cells throughout the entire division cycle to see how these loops behaved before and after mitosis.
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
Upon closely probing the mechanisms of cell division in two species of Ichthyosporeans, the researchers found that one species, S. arctica, favours closed mitosis, similar to fungi.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
The two differ, however, in how they carry out many physiological processes, including the most common type of cell division -- mitosis.
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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