Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Picture of the Day: Mitosis



This is a specific stain for DNA (dapi) that when laser energy is introduced, it fluoresces blue. The strands you see are the individual chromosomes condensed and being separated from it's sister chromatid. Microtubules play a MAJOR role in mitosis, thus the interest in drugs to inhibit mitosis and microtubules.

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