If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that during ...

As the cell proceeds through the stages of cell division (from left to right: interphase, prometaphase, metaphase, and anaphase), chromosomes become progressively more compact through a combination of ...

A 'pocket' on the protein cyclin B is responsible for ensuring that the steps of cell division take place in the correct order. Cell division is key for life. Every organism -- from the smallest yeast ...

Researchers have found a molecular mechanism that prevents multiplication of potentially dangerous cells by measuring the duration of mitosis. They have shown that this mechanism -- the Mitotic ...

A Université de Montréal study has found a previously unknown mechanism in bacterial reproduction that could be attacked by ...

Researchers from UNSW Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have discovered that cancer cells can activate a force-generating rescue mechanism to stabilize a cell structure responsible ...