(Marine Biological Laboratory) Using a novel imaging system for quantifying aspects of cell division in three dimensions, MBL scientists discover new interactions between sister kinetochores — the protein bundles at the contact point between the two identical strands of a chromosome — and the microtubule motors that help pull the strands apart.

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