New light shed on cell division

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 20:30 in Biology & Nature

A new study has yielded insights into how chromosomes separate when a cell divides. Centromeres, located in the little pinched waist of each chromosome, control the movements that separate sister chromosomes when cells divide ensuring that each daughter cell inherits a complete copy of each chromosome -- and researchers have visualized how the parts of centromeres assemble themselves as human cells grow and divide.

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