Cell division by cytokinesis completes the cell cycle for every cell. Cytokinesis in fungal, amoeboid and animal cells takes place in four steps (Fig. 1). The process begins when the cell marks the ...

A centromere is a specialized location in the DNA that functions as the control center of cell division and is maintained, unchanged, across generations of cells. It is characterized by a special ...

A new study challenges a widely-held notion about cell division. © screenshot from a video by The University of Manchester, with photo editing by Gizmodo If you took ...

You might have paid more attention to cell division in biology class had you seen this timelapse video from filmmaker Francis Chee (below). It shows the cell division of an egg from Rana temporaria ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Cell division is one of the most fundamental biological functions, vital to life – but there's still so much about it that we don't understand. In an attempt to find out more, researchers at the ...

In 2000, researchers discovered that mutations that inactivate a gene known as TRIM37 cause a developmental disease called ...

According to conventional wisdom, the compound microscope was invented at the beginning of the seventeenth century and made possible the immediate discovery of cells. This is nonsense. The textbook ...

“We closed a gap in our knowledge that was open for 10 years,” says Duccio Conti, a postdoc in the Musacchio group and first author of the publication. In healthy DNA replication, at first, each new ...