New Insight On Wonder Of Cell Division

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 17:43 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. Researchers opened a new 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.

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