Two of them have died, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center said Wednesday. CRE was a contributing factor in the deaths, but the exact cause of the deaths wasn't immediately disclosed, a hospital spokeswoman said. The medical center is contacting 179 others who had endoscopic procedures between October and January. It's offering them home tests to screen for the bacteria.
The interphase, or growth, period of the eukaryotic cell cycle (indicated by I in the figure at left below) alternates with mitosis (M in the figure). It's the time when the cell isn't undergoing division.
A cell of a eukaryotic organism features an organized, membrane-enclosed nucleus containing the deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, chromosomes and an organelle called a nucleolus. During the processes of nuclear division -- mitosis and meiosis -- the nucleus and nucleolus reforms during the telophase stage. Cells alternate between a resting phase, or interphase, and the mitotic phase, which consists of mitosis and cytokinesis, or cell division.