Researchers Gain New Insight on Wonder of Cell Division
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 14:36
in Biology & Nature
Biologists have discovered a mechanism that is critical to cytokinesis -- nature's completion of mitosis, where a cell divides into two identical daughter cells. They have opened a window on the assembly and activity of a ring of actin and myosin filaments that contract to pinch a cell at just the right time.