The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the movements of hundreds of proteins. How did early biologists unravel this complex dance of chromosomes? The most obvious difference ...

In the beginning, you were just some genetic material. In order to make you, your biological mom and dad both had to participate in an effort to pitch in one gamete each — a sperm cell and an egg cell ...

Researchers demonstrated gene bypass events for mitosis using evolutionary repair experiments. They found a novel connection between genes involved in mitosis and glucose metabolism. This connection ...

In the process of replicating themselves, cells have another choice: do they want to make an identical copy and be left with two cells? Or do they want to make four “half-copies”, in preparation for ...

The process of mitosis has made more clear, thanks to recent research. A new study describes how Topo 2, an enzyme that disentangles DNA molecules and is essential for proper cell division. At this ...

Mitosis is the mechanism by which a eukaryotic cell divides its nucleus and chromosomes to produce two genetically identical ...