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 ...

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

For generations, a tiny piece of DNA has mastered the art of inheritance by hijacking the yeast cell’s division machinery, ...

Before each cell division, termed mitosis, the genetic information must first be duplicated. This ensures that each chromosome in the cell that is ready to divide receives two copies of genetic ...

Dr Tatini Rakshit, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, highlights how innovative approaches like chromosome analysis and AFM could signific ...

Like humans, whales’ chromosomes most commonly express either XX or XY for female or male sex, respectively. One of the whale ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

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

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.

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 ...