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
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
Another species, C. perkinsii, turned out to be much more animal-like, relying on open mitosis.
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
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 W. Myers
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
Numerous mitoses could be considered an adequate proof of this process.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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