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mitosis

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

The discovery may also explain a long-observed burst in gene transcription that occurs near the end of mitosis.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

Using a powerful, high-resolution genome mapping method, the team found that small 3D loops -- connections between regulatory DNA elements and genes -- remain intact even during cell division, a stage known as mitosis.

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

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




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