We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells.

when the cells are round, highly mobile and dividing rapidly, to the more mature, epithelial stage, when they are somewhat cubical, less active and dividing slowly. The cells move back and forth ...

Figure 1: Lamellipodial crawling versus purse-string closure of an epithelial wound. However, in situations where closure of the wound is by lamellipodial crawling, such as in tissue-culture ...

Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they ...