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Parental chromosomes kept apart during first division
Mammalian life begins differently than we…
The cell that isn’t
This may look like yet another video of a dividing cell, but there’s a catch. You are looking at chromosomes (red) being pulled apart by the…
Fishing games gone wrong
When an egg cell is being formed, the cellular machinery which separates chromosomes is extremely imprecise at fishing them out of the cell’s…
Constant overlap
During cell division, microtubules emanating from each of the spindle poles meet and overlap in the spindle’s midzone. Scientists at the European…
A unique arrangement for egg cell division
Which genes are passed on from mother to child is decided very early on during the maturation of the egg cell in the ovary. In a cell division…
A matter of force
When a cell divides, normally the result is two identical daughter cells. In some cases however, cell division leads to two cells with different…
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