{"id":213016,"date":"2025-05-01T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-make-discovery-that-upends-our-beliefs-about-how-cells-divide"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:03:47","slug":"scientists-make-discovery-that-upends-our-beliefs-about-how-cells-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-make-discovery-that-upends-our-beliefs-about-how-cells-divide","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make discovery that upends our beliefs about how cells divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-make-discovery-that-upends-our-beliefs-about-how-cells-divide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school. In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adu9628\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> today in <i>Science<\/i>, the researchers challenge conventional wisdom taught in schools for over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Students are currently taught that during <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cell+division\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cell division<\/a>, a parent cell will become spherical before splitting into two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/daughter+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">daughter cells<\/a> of equal size and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/shape\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">shape<\/a>. However, the study reveals that cell rounding is not a universal feature of cell division and is not how it often works in the body.<\/p>\n<p>Dividing cells, the researchers show, often don\u2019t round up into sphere-like shapes. This lack of rounding breaks the symmetry of division to generate two daughter cells that differ from each other in both size and function, known as asymmetric division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school. In a study published today in Science, the researchers challenge conventional wisdom taught in schools for over 100 years. Students are currently taught that during cell division, a parent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}