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.
Cell Cycle. The cell cycle is the complex sequence of events by which cells grow and divide. In eukaryotic cells, this process includes a series of four distinct phases. These phases consist of the Mitosis phase (M), Gap 1 phase (G 1), Synthesis phase (S), and Gap 2 phase (G 2).