“Instead of floating freely and risking uneven distribution, the 2-micron plasmid has evolved a clever trick of hitchhiking,” ...

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

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 ...

“These embryos that are lost very early in pregnancy are never implanted in the uterus. They simply don’t manage to get that ...

Cell aging has always been an important topic in biological research, and telomere shortening is one of the key issues in ...

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 ...

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

Researchers at the Center for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO) aim to find out why so many early embryos fail in ...

is one of the first to explore how sex chromosomes and sex hormones combine to influence the immune systems of healthy individuals across a wide range of ages and gender profiles. Explaining the ...

Stem-cell research is the area of research that studies the properties of stem cells and their potential use in medicine. As stem cells are the source of all tissues, understanding their ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms ...