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Cell division is the process of a cell splitting into two genetically identical daughter cells. The actin protein seen in this video is essential for successful cell division. While actin has several ...

Examples of questions to ask students: How might the cytoskeleton be used in cell division? What other function(s) might the cytoskeleton perform in the cell? Can they create a simple model to ...

Nature Cell Biology is delighted to welcome you to this special issue, 'Focus on Cell Division', which we hope will be of interest not only to researchers within the field, but also to our readers ...

Each milestone represents an important discovery, or set of discoveries, in the field, and together they give an overview of the history of cell division. They were selected with the help of more ...

Right timing of cell division His group has now discovered that Plk1 is not essential for the start of cell division. "Rather, it acts as a molecular switch to ensure that cells start dividing at ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division ... recently published in the Journal of Cell Biology, shows that the nested loop mechanism ...