A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

For chromosomes to form the iconic X-shape that ensures the accurate passing of genetic information during cell division, a ...

Thus, in her experiments, McClintock observed several fundamental properties of chromosome biology; specifically, she noticed that cells do not tolerate the presence of unprotected chromosome ends ...

They did so by studying extra-long chromosomes with two or more crossovers. The findings are published in the journal Current Biology. "Taking advantage of fusion chromosomes with multiple ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport ... led by Andreas Brunner and recently published in the Journal of Cell Biology, shows that the nested loop mechanism is fundamental ...

We are using a combination of cell biology, live imaging, biochemistry, and proteomics to answer the following questions: 1) When and how does Topo II interact with the complex chromosome structure ...

For decades, scientists have known that chromosomes are protected by repetitive DNA known ... “represents the closing of one chapter in understanding telomere biology,” said biochemist Steve Jackson ...

Could we reeducate the immune system to clear cells with abnormal chromosome numbers? To address these critical questions, my laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center has employed an ...

Chromosomes that lack centromeres segregate ... Given the large amount of current research interest in centromere biology, it seems likely that the centromere has a few more surprises in store ...