INTRODUCTION One of the fundamental signal processing techniques in spindle metrology is the separation of synchronous and asynchronous parts of spindle motion. While in many cases, the synchronous parts of the spindle motion are more important, there are many cases where knowledge of the asynchronous motion is desired. However, it is common that a time series describing the spindle motion is d...

In meiosis-I crane-fly spermatocytes 3 autosomal half-bivalents move to each pole in anaphase while the 2 sex-chromosomal univalents remain at the equator. The sex chromosomes move to opposite poles only after the autosomes reach the poles; the sex chromosomes start to move polewards about 25 min after the autosomal half-bivalents have begun to move. We irradiated portions of single autosomal s...

In eukaryotic cells, proper position of the mitotic spindle is necessary for successful cell division and development. We explored the nature of forces governing the positioning and elongation of the mitotic spindle in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We hypothesized that astral microtubules exert mechanical force on the S. pombe spindle and thus help align the spindle with the major axis of the cell...

This paper presents a method to investigate the characteristics of a high-speed motorized spindle system. The geometric quality of high-precision parts is highly dependent on the dynamic performance of the entire machining system, which is determined by the interrelated dynamics of machine tool mechanical structure and cutting process. This performance is of great importance in advanced, high-p...

In animals, the female meiotic spindle is positioned at the egg cortex in a perpendicular orientation to facilitate the disposal of half of the chromosomes into a polar body. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the metaphase spindle lies parallel to the cortex, dynein is dispersed on the spindle, and the dynein activators ASPM-1 and LIN-5 are concentrated at spindle poles. Anaphase-promoting complex (AP...

The asymmetrically dividing yeast S. cerevisiae assembles a bipolar spindle well after establishing the future site of cell division (i.e., the bud neck) and the division axis (i.e., the mother-bud axis). A surveillance mechanism called spindle position checkpoint (SPOC) delays mitotic exit and cytokinesis until the spindle is properly positioned relative to the mother-bud axis, thereby ensurin...

INTRODUCTION During cell division, the mitotic spindle captures chromosomes and segregates them into two equal sets. The orientation and position of the mitotic spindle is important because the spindle equator becomes the plane of cell division. For instance, in a columnar cell with apical and basal polarity, if the spindle pole-to-pole axis orients along the cell’s long axis, the cell will div...

We construct a family of multidyonically charged and rotating supersymmetric ${\mathrm{AdS}}_{2}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Sigma}}$ solutions $D=4$, $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauged supergravity, where $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Sigma}}$ is sphere with two conical singularities known as spindle. argue that these arise near horizon limits extremal dyonically accelerating black holes...

Structure of the meiotic spindle T he meiotic spindle is made up of shorter microtubules than previously believed, suggest results from Ge Yang, Gaudenz Danuser (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA), Ben Houghtaling, Tarun Kapoor (Rockefeller University, New York, NY), and colleagues. Current models of the spindle, as a bipolar array of overlapping fi laments extending from opposite spindl...

INTRODUCTION Chronic medicated patients with schizophrenia have marked reductions in sleep spindle activity and a correlated deficit in sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Using archival data, we investigated whether antipsychotic-naïve early course patients with schizophrenia and young non-psychotic first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia also show reduced sleep spindle activit...