EMBL scientists have directly observed this process in high resolution under the microscope using a new chromatin tracing method. The new study shows that the long DNA molecules of each chromosome ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the movements ... were developed for visualizing spindles using electron microscopes (Mitchison & Salmon, 2001).

A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and ...

This video of a so-called HeLa cell dividing demonstrates how sensitive the cell division process is ... this cell did not divide properly is because it was under the laser microscope too long and so ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

an organism grows an organism becomes damaged and needs to produce new cells for repair organisms like bacteria reproduce asexually It is essential that any new cells produced contain genetic ...

They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding yeast; visualized with the nuclear DNA stain DAPI (4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) to highlight the ...

Breakthrough in Cytoskeleton Analysis The cytoskeleton is a network of protein filaments that supports cell shape, division ... on manual observation under a microscope, which is time-consuming ...