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

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

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

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 ...

Humanity has been hunting for sex-based differences in the brain since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and it has ...

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

Subscribe to Technology Networks’ daily newsletter, delivering breaking science news straight to your inbox ... our Centre demonstrates that sex hormones and chromosomes work in tandem to impact ...

Once started, cell division normally proceeds through all the stages until two genetically identical daughter cells are formed. During this process, the chromosomes are connected to the poles of ...

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