Stories by Daniel Mazia

What happens in the living cell between the time it is born and the division of another cell and the time it divides again? New methods of investigation reveal four phases in the cycle

All cells arise by division. In the process of mitosis each cell is apportioned a complete set of hereditary instructions when the chromosomes replicate and are separated by the mitotic apparatus

Called mitosis, it is the process by which units of living matter duplicate themselves. Its delicate apparatus is now investigated by the remarkable feat of isolating it from the rest of the cell