mitosis
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Perhaps that’s the next phase of Coachella’s mitosis: Weekend 1 determines how Coachella is seen, and Weekend 2 is where that attention is extended, maybe even reshaped.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
"It almost seems like this transcriptional spiking in mitosis is an undesirable accident that arises from generating a uniquely favorable environment for microcompartments to form during mitosis," Hansen says.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025
Many of these loops allow genes to interact with distant regulatory regions -- sometimes millions of base pairs apart -- while others form during mitosis to pack chromosomes tightly.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025
However, most fungi use a different form of cell division -- called 'closed' mitosis -- in which the nuclear envelope remains intact throughout the division process.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
Working as lab partners, we had to separate the slides of onion root tip cells into the phases of mitosis they represented and label them accordingly.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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