Divide and divide

摘要

Almost 600 genes play a parr in mitosis according to the results of a study into the most common form of cell division, which involved filming over 22,000 genes for 48 hours Working with the Mitocheck consortium, scientists from European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) developed a new method using high-throughput imaging of living cells to uncover which genes are involved in mitosis. They inactivated each of the 22,000 human genes in HeLa cells - a widely studied line of cancer cells - one by one in a different set of cells and filmed those cells for 48 hours under the microscope.