Each day, a human adult loses on average 50 to 70 billion cells, which die from natural causes alone. New cells replace lost ones by the complex process of cell division, which relies on what ...

A recent Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Cell Biology has identified new mechanisms that cause genomic or chromosomal instability during cell division, findings that may ...

Microtubules, the dynamic filaments that form the cell's internal scaffolding, have long been viewed as mere passive structural supports. But a new study reveals they play a far more active signaling ...

In case of charge perturbation, potential or current (potentiostatic or galvanostatic) is provided as input for MC simulation and the free energy of activation for dynamic instability of MTs in the ...

Microtubules are filamentous polymers composed of α- and β-tubulin heterodimers that undergo continuous cycles of assembly and disassembly in a process known as dynamic instability. Their regulated ...

I'm primarily interested in the behavior of microtubules during mitosis in fission yeast. Microtubules, which are the cytoskeletal component of the mitotic spindle, exhibit dynamic instability where ...

The chromosomes, once they have duplicated genetic information, move to the center of the cell and the cell, in a very remarkable way, quickly sprouts from its two ends large tubes that hook the ...