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

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process ...

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

The effect of saccharin on the microbiome has received much attention, but its impact on pathogenic bacterial species is less ...

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

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from one ... For one, inserting at the end of the chromosome helps the transposon avoid genes for the cell's core functioning, which ...

Geoff Bennett: The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy. And its potential sale has raised alarms about what could happen to the DNA data of its millions of users. 23andMe was ...

The research reveals that this sex-based difference can be traced to a gene on the Y chromosome. The discovery, published on March 12 in Science Advances, not only showcases the critical need to ...