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Ripping up the nuclear envelope

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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Figure 1: How cells dismantle the nuclear envelope during the phases (shown in boxes) of cell division, as proposed by Beaudouin et al.2 and Salina et al.3.

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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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