Researchers revealed that mitosis doesn’t always feature cell rounding (when a parent cell becomes spherical), meaning that ...

Erroneous or uncontrolled cell division can have serious consequences, leading to diseases such as cancer. Plk1 plays a key role in this regulatory process. It activates other proteins involved in ...

New research reveals that cells don't always become round before dividing, challenging over a century of textbook biology.

Cancer cells are cells gone wrong — in other words, they no longer respond to many of the signals that control cellular growth and death. Cancer cells originate within tissues and, as they grow ...

It's long been assumed that when a parent cell divides into two daughter cells, the parents assumes a spherical shape, which ...