title: Mitosis: a history of division.
abstract: Mitosis has been studied since the early 1880s, to the extent that we now have a detailed, but still incomplete, description of spindle dynamics and mechanics, a sense of potential mechanochemical and regulatory mechanisms at a molecular level, and a long list of mitotic proteins. Here we present a personal view of how far we have come, and where we need to go to fully understand the mechanisms involved in mitosis.
authors.affiliation: Deparment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. timothy_mitchison@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Mitchison
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Salmon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005823:Genetics / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008938:Mitosis