Physical pressure can stop cancer cells from growing large enough to divide, revealing why squeezed tumors may stall.

During animal cell division, a highly synchronized and tightly regulated dance of chromosomes takes place, ensuring the ...

If cells in cell cultures grow while being treated with division-suppressing agents, their growth becomes excessive and they permanently lose their ability to divide. However, if the cells are treated ...

It's tricky to make an exact copy of yourself. Or at least it is for cells undergoing mitosis, where cells replicate everything inside of them, including their neatly packaged DNA, then split in half.

A cell copies all six billion letters of its DNA, gears up to split, and then simply… doesn’t. It sits there, swollen with ...

Researchers have engineered synthetic cells capable of mimicking biological division, a step toward artificial life systems.

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have revealed how mistakes in the final step of cell division can have ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic ...

A cell copies all of its DNA, gears up to split in two, and then just… doesn’t. It sits there, swollen with a double genome, and nobody notices. This kind of silent failure has been observed in labs ...

In a multicellular organism, normal growth requires control of cell division to generate cells that are similar to or different from their parents. Analysis of this process in plant roots reveals how ...

When we talk about memories in biology, we tend to focus on the brain and the storage of information in neurons. But there are lots of other memories that persist within our cells. Cells remember ...