It induced pronounced cell form aberrations and the division of cells was hampered.
vegetative growth -- Growth of a plant by division of cells, without sexual reproduction.
This is satisfactory for many applications, but not for modeling growth and division of cells.
Most traditional chemotherapies, for instance, attack the rapid division of cells.
Its exact function is unknown, but product developers like Clarins suggest it slows the division of cells responsible for creating hair.
Proto-oncogenes control the growth and division of cells by coding for proteins that form a signaling "cascade".
C. elegans relies on many of the same genes that we do to control the division of cells, for example, and to program faulty cells to commit suicide.
p53 is a well-known tumor suppressor that normally works to pause the division of cells with DNA damage to allow them the necessary repair time.
RNase L chops up RNA strands that govern the rapid division of cells, as well as how well cells stick to each other.
In most developing organisms, scientists assumed that most of the energy was expended on the replication of DNA or the division of cells.
Dr. Edwin G. Krebs, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1992 for discovering a crucial bodily process that helps govern the movement of muscles, the shape and division of cells, and even learning and memory, died Dec. 21 in Seattle.
