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The pulse of mitosis

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A new fluorescent biosensor allows mitosis to be monitored simultaneously in a large number of cells.

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Figure 1: Nuclear envelope breakdown (NEB; top), anaphase (middle) and nuclear envelope reformation (NER; bottom) as it would appear using total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) and whole cell fluorescence.

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