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

The field of synthetic biology is revolutionizing biomedicine, with applications in CAR-T cell therapy and biosensor-based ...

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

Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), they captured the real-time process of ...

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

Genomic changes in the infectious yeast Candida tropicalis may play a role in its resistance to antifungals, according to a new study. These genomic changes can be brought on by a common antifungal, ...

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 ...

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

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

After a storied scientific career that began with the discovery of how hormones control genes, Keith Yamamoto, PhD, has ...