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's about creating the conditions for the system to run smoothly. CENP-E's key role is to stabilize the start, and once that happens, the rest of mitosis unfolds correctly."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025
They also discovered that these loops appear to form as a result of the genome compaction that occurs during mitosis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
To explore this, they decided to examine what happens to these structures as cells go through mitosis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
The centrioles, which hoist the microtubules on which chromosomes are strung for mitosis, are similar separate creatures; when not busy with mitosis, they become the basal bodies to which cilia are attached.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Importantly, the researchers demonstrated that the stopwatch mechanism is switched "off" by many types of cancers, effectively allowing them to tolerate aberrant genomes that undergo longer and problematic mitoses.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
In interphase, the phase of the cell cycle between mitoses at which the chromosomes are decondensed, eukaryotic chromosomes have two distinct regions that can be distinguished by staining.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
There were no dividing spermatogonia and few spermatocyte mitoses.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Nettie Maria Stevens
These really negative observations shew that the mitoses play a completely negligeable part in the increase of the cells in the blood itself.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
For special purposes, for instance, the demonstration of mitoses, blood platelets, etc., other hardening reagents may be used with advantage: Sublimate, osmic acid, Flemming's fluid, and so forth.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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