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mitosis

[mahy-toh-sis] / maɪˈtoʊ sɪs /
NOUN
cell division
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Perhaps that’s the next phase of Coachella’s mitosis: Weekend 1 determines how Coachella is seen, and Weekend 2 is where that attention is extended, maybe even reshaped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

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

In their new study, the MIT team found that during mitosis, microcompartments are more likely to be found near the genes that spike during cell division.

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

This is accomplished by the process of mitosis, or nuclear division.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Importantly, the researchers demonstrated that the stopwatch mechanism is switched "off" by many types of cancers, effectively allowing them to tolerate aberrant genomes that undergo longer and problematic mitoses.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024

In interphase, the phase of the cell cycle between mitoses at which the chromosomes are decondensed, eukaryotic chromosomes have two distinct regions that can be distinguished by staining.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

For special purposes, for instance, the demonstration of mitoses, blood platelets, etc., other hardening reagents may be used with advantage: Sublimate, osmic acid, Flemming's fluid, and so forth.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

These really negative observations shew that the mitoses play a completely negligeable part in the increase of the cells in the blood itself.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

There were no dividing spermatogonia and few spermatocyte mitoses.

From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Nettie Maria Stevens




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