Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

If cells in cell cultures grow while being treated with division-suppressing agents, their growth becomes excessive and they permanently lose their ability to divide. However, if the cells are treated ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

The journey started with an enigma in the zebrafish embryo: some endothelial cells, actively involved in the initial stages ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

An organism grows and repairs its body using a form of cell division known as mitosis. To divide, a cell must replicate the chromosomes, which carry the DNA (the instructions needed to build the body) ...

The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

A living cell is a bustling metropolis, with countless molecules and proteins navigating crowded spaces in every direction. Cell division is a grand event which completely transforms the landscape.

The story of the cell cycle is often told only through the perspective of the chromosomes as they replicate and then divide. This resource beautifully illustrates the role of the cytoskeleton in that ...