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 ...

This solution is called meiosis. Mitosis describes the process by which the nucleus of a cell divides to create two new nuclei, each containing an identical copy of DNA. (Cytokinesis describes the ...

and our understanding of kinetochores will continue to grow as new research results are published. Considering the many essential roles that centromeres play in mitosis, they are truly at the ...

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 ...

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 ...