Our modern understanding of mitosis has benefited from advances in light microscopy that have allowed investigators to follow the process of mitosis in living cells. Such live cell imaging not ...

Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells. During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to ...

However, a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the egg could in fact predate all animal life. A single-celled organism called Chromosphaera perkinsii appears to possess a embryonic ...

We hope our discovery will open up whole new avenues of research that increase our understanding of the process of mitosis, and ultimately lead to the discovery of new cancer drugs.” Professor Paul ...

perkinsii performed open mitosis, akin to animal cells ... This diversity not only helps in understanding the path to animals but also offers a fascinating opportunity for comparative embryology ...