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If it is true that a deeper knowledge of mitosis is one of the roads toward a deeper insight into the cancer problem, the truism is too dilute for practical or heuristic purposes. Mitosis is not a phenomenon of cells but a destiny. Research has to be directed toward phenomena, and it is not self-evident that the relevant phenomenon is the act of mitosis itself, seen as a culmination of the life of a cell.
This work was supported in part by grant GM 13882 from the U.S.-Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, to Daniel Mazia.
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Mazia, D. (1968). Molecular Units of the Mitotic Apparatus and the Government of Mitosis. In: Lettré, H., Wagner, G. (eds) Aktuelle Probleme aus dem Gebiet der Cancerologie II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85519-1_22
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