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Is this sloppy reporting or are these researchers actually confused about senescent cells often having two nuclei? One of the known cause of cellular senescence is G-phase cell division cycle arrest, usually due to damage, which will result in a cell with two nuclei...


(No biology training here.)

According to Wikipedia, it looks like G-phase is part of interphase. During interphase, the cell isn't actually in the process of dividing, right? Wouldn't it be more likely that a senescent cell would have two nuclei if there was an error during telophase, right before cytokinesis?


Is there a good place to learn about this that doesn't assume a deep bio background?




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