The study is the first to reveal in extreme detail the operation of the biochemical clockwork that
drives cellular division in bacteria and could inform efforts to develop drugs that combat antibiotic - resistant bacteria.
Not exact matches
These long - lived worms had mutations that decreased the production of a protein known as insulinlike growth factor 1 (IGF - 1), which helps
drive cellular growth and
division.
The consistent segregation of these regions, in the same way in every cell, suggests that these processes could
drive chromosome and genome folding and thus regulate important
cellular events such as DNA replication and cell
division.
This is a very important finding as cancer cells are
driven by very fast and out of control
cellular division.