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mitosis

[mahy-toh-sis] / maɪˈtoʊ sɪs /
NOUN
cell division
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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

"We went into this study thinking, well, the one thing we know for sure is that there's no regulatory structure in mitosis, and then we accidentally found structure in mitosis," Hansen says.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 2025

Using their technique, the researchers also confirmed that larger structures such as A/B compartments and TADs do disappear during mitosis, as had been seen before.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 2025

Interestingly, the researchers found that certain species of Ichthyosporea undergo closed mitosis while others undergo open mitosis.

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

This is accomplished by the process of mitosis, or nuclear division.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

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 Myers, W.

There were no dividing spermatogonia and few spermatocyte mitoses.

From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Stevens, Nettie Maria

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 Myers, W.




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