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
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 discovery may also explain a long-observed burst in gene transcription that occurs near the end of 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
The centrioles, which hoist the microtubules on which chromosomes are strung for mitosis, are similar separate creatures; when not busy with mitosis, they become the basal bodies to which cilia are attached.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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