Jutta Ellermann is a MSK fellowship trained Board Certified Radiologist with 10 years of clinical practice at the University of Minnesota with a special focus on MSK imaging research. Her areas of research interest include:
â in cells capable of dividing, the period between cell divisions is called interphase â cells spend most of their time in interphase because this is the phase where they perform their functions (obtaining energy, synthesizing products, repair damage, fight disease, duplicate their genetic material and get ready for division)
Interphase is also considered to be the 'living' phase of the cell, in which the cell obtains nutrients, grows, reads its DNA, and conducts other normal cell functions. The cells increase its size and make a copy of its DNA, during cell division. In interphase, the cell gets itself ready for mitosis, the process by which a eukaryotic cell separates the chromosomes in its cell nucleus into two identical sets in two nuclei or meiosis, a type of cell division necessary for sexual reproduction.