daughter cell

/ dô′tər /

1. Either of the two cells formed when a cell undergoes cell division by mitosis . Daughter cells are genetically identical to the parent cell because they contain the same number and type of chromosomes.

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists found that how tight a parental T cell grabs a cancer protein determines if its daughter cells will be anti-cancer effectors or exhausted.

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During mitosis, the parent cell will duplicate its chromosomes in order to pass down the genetic material to the daughter cells.

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Yet in that time, only about 30 minutes is spent on the critical orchestration of mitosis, when chromosomes are carefully segregated from one parent cell to the next generation of two daughter cells.

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Before cells divide, they must copy their DNA such that each of the two daughter cells has a copy.

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Simultaneously, the Pten gene was removed in one branch of daughter cells, marked in green, but remained intact in the other, marked in red.

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