We’ve all seen the movie. The sister chromatids hover at the metaphase plate, and then suddenly break apart and race toward the spindle poles. The suddenness of the event is striking: there can be ...

Researchers have found a molecular mechanism that prevents multiplication of potentially dangerous cells by measuring the duration of mitosis. They have shown that this mechanism -- the Mitotic ...

The dynamic distribution of phosphorylated Histone H3 on Ser10 (phospho-H3) in cells was investigated to determine its function during mitosis. Human breast adenocarcinoma cells MCF-7, and Chinese ...