mitosis

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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

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

"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

To explore this, they decided to examine what happens to these structures as cells go through mitosis.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

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