Rethinking mitosis

Nanosurgeons unravel old pole-to-pole theory 

The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

The findings, which result from quantitative measurements of the mitotic spindle, appear in the journal Cell.

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