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New key mechanism in cell division discovered

Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have identified the mechanism by which protein Zds1 regulates a key function in mitosis, the process that occurs immediately before cell division. The ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Slicing mitotic spindle with lasers, nanosurgeons unravel old pole-to-pole theory

The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study resolves debate on human cell shut-down process

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have resolved the debate over the mechanisms involved in the shut-down process during cell division in the body.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Defect in transport system causes DNA chaos in red blood cells

Within all our cells lies two meters of DNA, highly ordered in a structure of less than 10 micro meters in diameter. Special proteins called histones act as small building bricks, organising our DNA in this structure. Preservation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prion proteins play powerful role in survival, evolution of wild yeast strains

Prions, the much-maligned proteins most commonly known for causing "mad cow" disease, are commonly used in yeast to produce beneficial traits in the wild. Moreover, such traits can be passed on to subsequent generations and ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fit females make more daughters, mighty males get grandsons

Females influence the gender of their offspring so they inherit either their mother's or grandfather's qualities. 'High-quality' females – those which produce more offspring – are more likely to have daughters. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How old yeast cells send off their daughter cells without the baggage of old age

The accumulation of damaged protein is a hallmark of aging that not even the humble baker's yeast can escape. Yet, aged yeast cells spawn off youthful daughter cells without any of the telltale protein clumps. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chromosome centromeres are inherited epigenetically

Centromeres are specialised regions of the genome, which can be identified under the microscope as the primary constriction in X-shaped chromosomes. The cell skeleton, which distributes the chromosomes to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research team clarifies mechanics of first new cell cycle to be described in more than 20 years

An international team of researchers led by investigators in the U.S. and Germany has shed light on the inner workings of the endocycle, a common cell cycle that fuels growth in plants, animals and some human tissues and ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Do bacteria age? Biologists discover the answer follows simple economics

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Study reveals new role for RNA interference during chromosomal replication

At the same time that a cell's DNA gets duplicated, a third of it gets super-compacted into repetitive clumps called heterochromatin. This dense packing serves to repress or "silence" the DNA sequences within -- which could ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How bookmarking genes pre-cell division hastens their subsequent reactivation

In order for cells of different types to maintain their identities even after repeated rounds of cell division, each cell must "remember" which genes were active before division and pass along that memory to its daughter ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene may be good target for tough-to-kill prostate cancer cells

Purdue University scientists believe they have found an effective target for killing late-stage, metastatic prostate cancer cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds protein critical to breast cancer cell proliferation, migration

Researchers have found that a protein linked to cell division and migration and tied to increased cell proliferation in ovarian tumors is also present at high levels in breast cancer specimens and cell lines. The protein, ...

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How plants space out the pores through which they breathe

The way in which plants space out the pores through which they breathe depends on keeping a protein active during stem cell growth, according to John Innes Centre scientists.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Daughter

A daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. The male equivalent is a son. Analogously the name is used on several areas to show relations between groups or elements.

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