Every time a tissue grows or renews itself, cells must divide inside an already crowded environment. That creates a ...

Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain ...

More than 30 years after the direct connection was established between the molecular machinery controlling cell division and ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have discovered MSEP, a previously unknown protein encoded by an RNA once ...

Using an innovative combination of biochemical experiments and ultra-high-resolution microscopy, a research team at Kiel University has solved the long-standing mystery of how the bacterium B.

A centromere is a specialized location in the DNA that functions as the control center of cell division and is maintained, unchanged, across generations of cells. It is characterized by a special ...

David Pellman (left) is a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (both MA, USA), who also has affiliations with Howard Hughes Medical Institute (MD, USA) and the ...

When a cell gets ready to divide, it shuts down its gene-reading machinery almost entirely. "As cells prepare to divide, they rapidly shut down most gene reading, or transcription," says Claudio R.

A 'pocket' on the protein cyclin B is responsible for ensuring that the steps of cell division take place in the correct order. Cell division is key for life. Every organism -- from the smallest yeast ...

A new study from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research shows that cell division actively reshapes epithelial tissue, ...