During cell division, the membranes that surround the nucleus must be dismantled to allow the DNA housed inside the nucleus to be partitioned into two daughter cells. New work shows how this happens.
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Lippincott-Schwartz, J. Ripping up the nuclear envelope. Nature 416, 31–32 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416031a
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