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24 March 2026
Gathered about MOS
Cell division that results in an egg (and the same for sperm) from the germ cell is called meiosis (different from mitotic division that all other body cells undergo). Here in a mouse study, an enzyme called MOS has been found to be key to normal meiotic cell division. The image shows structures in a normal cell (left) undergoing meiosis – the midbody with a 'ring and cap' highlighted in magenta (DNA in white and tubulin in green) – and in a cell without MOS (right) revealing the midbody's 'cap' is absent
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Gisela Cairo, Muhammad A. Haseeb and colleagues
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Journal of Cell Science, March 2026
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