mitosis

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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

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

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

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

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