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 ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

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

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

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

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

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

Conversely, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, used rats to show that transplanted mitochondria stop damaged ...

Did you know men and women's heart cells prefer different kinds of fuel? Gender differences are emerging as scientists turn ...

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