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When cells divide

For two independent daughter cells to emerge from a cell division, the membrane of the dividing cell must be severed. In the latest issue of Science, a team led by Daniel Gerlich, Professor at the Institute of Bio ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study may aid efforts to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer

Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From mother to daughters: A central mystery in cell division solved

Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key step required for cell division in a study that could help improve therapies to ...

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created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cell division study resolves 50-year-old-debate, may aid cancer research

A new study at Oregon State University has finally resolved a controversy that cellular biologists have been arguing over for nearly 50 years, with findings that may aid research on everything from birth defects and genetic ...

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created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 2

Scientists Discover How Cells Build a 'Machine' for Cell Division

Using time-lapse photography and computer modeling, a team of researchers from Columbia, Yale and Lehigh Universities has explained a mystery surrounding the assembly of a cellular structure responsible for ...

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created Dec 19, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

How molecular muscles help cells divide

Time-lapse videos and computer simulations provide the first concrete molecular explanation of how a cell flexes tiny muscle-like structures to pinch itself into two daughter cells at the end of each cell division, according ...

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created Dec 14, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers make cell biology quantitative

Yale researchers have reported a method to count the absolute number of individual protein molecules inside a living cell, and to measure accurately where they are located, two basic hurdles for studying biology ...

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created Oct 20, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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