News tagged with spindle apparatus

Team applies new techniques and sees surprises in cell division

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have obtained the first high-resolution, three-dimensional images of a cell with a nucleus undergoing cell division. The observations, made using a powerful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers identify potential cancer target

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Medical School researchers have found two proteins that work in concert to ensure proper chromosome segregation during cell division. Their study is in the January 2009 issue of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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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

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Biology-oriented synthesis (BIOS) - cancer drugs based on natural models

The search for new drug candidates for cancer treatment is laborious and time-consuming. Only a fraction of the promising chemical compounds identified completes the transition to the market. Herbert Waldmann ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Record reaction cascade yields cancer drug candidate

(PhysOrg.com) -- New active substances can be produced quickly and efficiently with the help of reaction cascades. Once set in motion, these processes lead to the desired end product via a series of intermediate steps which ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New tasks attributed to Aurora proteins in cell division

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a cell divides, the genetic information in the chromosomes must be passed on error-free to the daughter cells. Researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen are studying ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biologists capture cell's elusive 'motor' on videotape, solving the mystery of its deployment

(PhysOrg.com) -- In basic research with far-reaching impact, cell biologists Wei-Lih Lee and Steven Markus report in an article released today in Developmental Cell, with videos, that they have solved one of the fundamental questi ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New research shows key player in mitosis not required for chromosome alignment

(PhysOrg.com) -- K-fibers, structures long thought to play a key role in the alignment of chromosomes prior to cell division, are not required after all, say Indiana University and New York State Department ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The downside of microtubule stability

Stalled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report in the Journal of Cell Biology . A mutant protein makes the mi ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Single molecule tracking helps reveal mechanism of chromosome separation in dividing cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Washington (UW) researchers are helping to write the operating manual for the nano-scale machine that separates chromosomes before cell division. The apparatus is called a spindle ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Lack of CHFR gene expression sets stage for breast cancer

[B]U-M study lays groundwork for better ways to choose effective treatments, provides insights on other cancers[/B] A University of Michigan study reveals in detail how breast cells produce new cells tha ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A unique arrangement for egg cell division

Which genes are passed on from mother to child is decided very early on during the maturation of the egg cell in the ovary. In a cell division process that is unique to egg cells, half of the chromosomes are eliminated from ...

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created Aug 09, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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