New findings are calling into question a long-held theory for how a dividing cell decides to stop the process of mitosis and restart the cell cycle. Chromosomes (blue) and mitoticspindle (green) ...

Researchers have found a molecular mechanism that prevents multiplication of potentially dangerous cells by measuring the duration of mitosis. They have shown that this mechanism -- the Mitotic ...

Viruses insert “transposable elements” into the genetic material of host cells to replicate. While cells’ defense mechanisms have learned to silence most of these viral insertions, a few “jumping ...

Oncotarget published "NEDD8-activating enzyme inhibition induces cell cycle arrest and anaphase catastrophe in malignant T-cells" which reported that peripheral T-cell lymphoma is characterized by ...

The awe-inspiring process of cell division can turn a fertilized egg into a baby – or a cancerous cell into a malignant tumor. With so much at stake, nature keeps it tightly controlled in a process ...

During cell division, adherent animal cells round up to create the precise spatial geometry required for accurate chromosome ...

A new method can capture detailed information about all four phases of the cell cycle in real time using fluorescent proteins. Michael Lin was always curious about cell biology, but he became ...

The first mitosis in spores of the fern A. capillus-veneris was observed under a microscope equipped with Nomarski optics with irradiation from a safelight at 900 nm, and under a fluorescent ...