Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

As the cell proceeds through the stages of cell division (from left to right: interphase, prometaphase, metaphase, and anaphase), chromosomes become progressively more compact through a ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

The improper segregation of chromosomes during cell division leads to abnormalities that disrupt the proper functioning of the cell. Cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes consequently activate ...

Cell aging has always been an important topic in biological research, and telomere shortening is one of the key issues in ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

a model system for studying cell division. They discovered that despite relatively weak binding by an essential protein—histone variant CENP-A/Cse4—to DNA, other proteins are recruited to one specific ...

Professor Coziana Ciurtin, principal investigator of the study from UCL Division of Medicine and ... their levels of class-switched memory B cells were comparable with those seen in cisgender males.

Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause, which may be linked to the sex hormone ...

A new study has shown how chromosomes change shape during cell division. Certain protein complexes help fold DNA into overlapping loops that repel each other, which then stack to create a rod-like ...