1. Duane A. Compton is in the Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. e-mail: duane.a.compton@dartmouth.edu

Abstract

During cell division, replicated DNA condenses into chromosomes that conspicuously align at the equator of the microtubule-based spindle. This alignment is important for accurate chromosome segregation to daughter cells and startling new data show that chromosomes cooperate with one another to achieve this alignment.

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