How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

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This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Source
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Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Source
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Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal

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Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase. Source
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