Posts Tagged ‘mitosis’
Do sperm have commitment phobia?
U. MINNESOTA (US) — Germ cells, the cells that give rise to eggs and sperm, undergo a special form of cell division that commits them to their fates. But future sperm put it off much longer than future eggs do. Continue…
Monday, November 8, 2010 12:13 - 0 Comments
Health & Medicine - Oct 15, 2010 10:22 - 2 Comments
Drug from evergreen tree kills cancer
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — A powerful drug derived from an evergreen tree may soon save the lives of some patients with the deadliest form of breast cancer. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 10, 2010 15:58 - 1 Comment
Cancer cells ignore their internal clocks
VANDERBILT (US)—A new finding challenges the assumption that the biological clocks in cancer cells are damaged and can’t regulate cell division in the fashion that they do in normal cells. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 28, 2009 11:49 - 0 Comments
Following the rules of cell division
INDIANA (US)—No matter how complex things get, it comes down to this: Cells are either directed to divide, or they are not. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 18, 2009 9:28 - 0 Comments
Nanoscale DNA slices reveal cell division force
Micrograph showing condensed chromosomes in blue and the mitotic spindle in green during cell division. (Courtesy: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Image Science and Machine Vision Unit)
