The awe-inspiring process of cell division can turn a fertilized egg into a baby – or a cancerous cell into a malignant tumor. With so much at stake, nature keeps it tightly controlled in a process ...

During S-phase, DNA replication takes place in five stages. They are: initiation, unwinding, primer synthesis, elongation, and termination. Helicase enzymes “unwind” the DNA double helix, and ...

Why do we need to understand the dynamics of the cell cycle? The cell cycle is a mechanism that controls and integrates the stages of DNA synthesis, mitosis, and cell division. This mechanism dictates ...

Cell Cycle and Cell Division MCQs: Understanding a cell is complicated, and knowing about its growth and division is much more complex. Students of Class 11 Science deal with such a deep concept of ...

Vakil Takhaveev joined Matthias Heinemann’s laboratory at the University of Groningen in 2015 to research cellular metabolism. Early in his studies using budding yeast as a model organism, he peered ...