New technique sheds light on the mysterious process of cell division

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

A new technique that constructs models of primitive cells has demonstrated that the structure of a cell's membrane and cytoplasm may be as important to cell division as a cell's enzymes, DNA, or RNA. The study may provide important clues to how life originated from non-life and how modern cells came to exhibit complex behaviors.

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