The mitotic spindle is positioned with respect to asymmetries in cellular polarity to ensure that the partitioning of genomes is coordinated with the partitioning of developmental determinants. A ...
Zachary Gergely, Ammon Crapo, Loren Hough, J. Richard McIntosh, and Meredith D. Betterton (2016). Molecular Biology of the Cell27, 3490. arXiv DOI: 1604.08134. DOI ...
When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells. The spindle is the machinery behind that process: It latches onto ...
Spindles are responsible for pulling apart your chromosomes when your cells divide. New research confirms a theory that these spindles self-organize and interact with one another much like active ...
Researchers at Waseda University in Japan have for the first time directly observed the "molecular motor", called Xkid, that plays a critical role in facilitating the proper alignment of chromosomes ...