Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

and the chromosomes begin to decondense into their interphase conformations. Telophase is followed by cytokinesis, or the division of the cytoplasm into two daughter cells. The daughter cells that ...

Beyond carrying out the tasks of routine metabolism, the cell must duplicate its components — most importantly, its genome — so that it can physically split into two complete daughter cells.

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division ... might be sufficient to explain the vast differences that we see in the shape the genome takes ...

Interphase The cell spends most of its life ... Cytokinesis The cell membrane pinches in and eventually divides into two daughter cells.