mitosis

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"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

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

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

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