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

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

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division ... professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) -- set out ...

Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the ...

Maria Branyas lived to be a whopping 117 years old and ticked many of the boxes for longevity, according to researchers.

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

A test for abnormal fetal chromosomes can also detect maternal cancers—and physicians are struggling to incorporate that ...

Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same way In work published today in the journal Science Advances ... Female cells typically have two X chromosomes, one from each parent; male cells usually ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.