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Scientists deconstruct cell division

The last step of the cell cycle is the brief but spectacularly dynamic and complicated mitosis phase, which leads to the duplication of one mother cell into two daughter cells. In mitosis, the chromosomes ...

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Central nervous system stem cells shed light on mechanism that controls asymmetrical division

Animals consist of many distinct cell types, all of which originate during development from a single cell: the fertilized egg. To generate this vast cellular diversity, the egg and its descendants must divide ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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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 ...

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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

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A mitosis mystery solved: How chromosomes align perfectly in a dividing cell

Although the process of mitotic cell division has been studied intensely for more than 50 years, Whitehead Institute researchers have only now solved the mystery of how cells correctly align their chromosomes during symmetric ...

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Scientist peers into cell division mechanics

A researcher at the University of Wyoming is peeling away the mysteries enshrouding a cellular process occurring billions of times a day in a body, is absolutely precious to life and traces back through the ...

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Why the biological clock? Study says aging reduces centromere cohesion, disrupts reproduction

University of Pennsylvania biologists studying human reproduction have identified what is likely the major contributing factor to the maternal age-associated increase in aneuploidy, the term for an abnormal ...

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Live imaging puts new light on stem cell division

(PhysOrg.com) -- A long-held assumption about asymmetrical division of stem cells has cracked. Researchers at the University of Oregon report that the mitotic spindle does not act alone -- that cortical proteins ...

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Scientists unveil structure of adenovirus, the largest high-resolution complex ever found

After more than a decade of research, Scripps Research Institute scientists have pieced together the structure of a human adenovirus—the largest complex ever determined at atomic resolution. The new findings ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Experiments decipher key piece of the ‘histone code’ in cell division

Reproduce or perish. That’s the bottom line for genes. Because nothing lives forever, reproduction is how life sustains itself, and it happens most fundamentally in the division and replication of the cell, ...

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created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research links huntingtin to neurogenesis

New research finds that a protein that is often mutated in Huntington's disease (HD) plays an unexpected role in the process of neurogenesis. The research, published by Cell Press in the August 12 issue of the journal Neuron, provid ...

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