This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The force for poleward chromosome motion during mitosis is thought to act, in all higher organisms, exclusively through the kinetochore. We ...

Despite being densely packed to fit into the nucleus, chromosomes storing our genetic information are always in motion. This allows specific regions to come into contact and thereby activate a gene. A ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We have used light microscopy and serial thin-section electron microscopy to visualize intermediates of chromosome decondensation during G1 ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a fundamental physical law that governs the seemingly chaotic motion of chromosomes ...