{"id":217738,"date":"2025-07-13T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/this-discovery-challenges-a-century-of-teaching-about-cell-division-%f0%9f%94%ac"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:07:13","slug":"this-discovery-challenges-a-century-of-teaching-about-cell-division-%f0%9f%94%ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/this-discovery-challenges-a-century-of-teaching-about-cell-division-%f0%9f%94%ac","title":{"rendered":"This discovery challenges a century of teaching about cell division \ud83d\udd2c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-discovery-challenges-a-century-of-teaching-about-cell-division-f09f94ac.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what textbooks have claimed for over a century, cell division does not always follow the same pattern. Researchers have just demonstrated that cells can divide asymmetrically, overturning the foundations of taught biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what textbooks have claimed for over a century, cell division does not always follow the same pattern. Researchers have just demonstrated that cells can divide asymmetrically, overturning the foundations of taught biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217738","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}