Mitosis in the News
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Bioengineers Discover Single Cancer Cell Can Produce up to Five Daughter CellsUCLA researchers have discovered that cancer cells cultured in a restricted space have abnormal mitosis and produce multiple daughter cells. A 2012 article from Science Daily.
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Scientists Identify Genes Involved in Cell Division in Humans600 genes are involved in mitosis in human cells! Find out scientists determined the number in this 2010 article in ScienceDaily.com.
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DNA Replication Protein Also Has a Role in Mitosis, CancerResearchers at UNC have discovered a new function for a known DNA replication protein. Find out what it does during the M phase of the cell cycle in this 2012 article from ScienceDaily.com.
Mitosis in Media
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MitosisNeed help getting the stages of mitosis and the cell cycle straight? This 6:11 minute animation of mitosis and the cell cycle from North Dakota State University Virtual Cell will make it all clear as day.
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Chromatin Shapes the Mitotic SpindleDr. Francois Nedelec explains the experiment his lab did to test whether whether chromatin affects the formation of the mitotic spindle. A 2:55 minute YouTube video from Cell Press.
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Cytokinesis in Animal and Plant CellsFind out how cytokinesis differs in animal and plant cells in this 3:48 minute YouTube video from Great Pacific Media.
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DNA ReplicationA 2:04 minute video from Garland Science. The bean-looking objects are single strand binding proteins.
Mitosis in the African Globe Lily
Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
More public domain photographs are available at The Cell: An Image Library.
Credit: De Mey J, Lambert AM, Bajer AS, Moeremans M, De Brabander M. Visualization of microtubules in interphase and mitotic plant cells of Haemanthus endosperm with the immuno-gold staining method. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1982 79:1898-902.
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