mitosis
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"It's about creating the conditions for the system to run smoothly. CENP-E's key role is to stabilize the start, and once that happens, the rest of mitosis unfolds correctly."
From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025
They also discovered that these loops appear to form as a result of the genome compaction that occurs during mitosis.
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
This is accomplished by the process of mitosis, or nuclear division.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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