Protecting animals against environmental changes, poachers, and other dangers is vital yet challenging work. And in recent ...

Gene editing involves precisely cutting DNA, allowing the cell to repair itself. While it has been used to treat genetic ...

Alan Herbert, explores the understanding of genome information storage, and the significance of repetitive sequences called ...

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

James Berger, Karen Fleming, and Gregory Kirk join an esteemed group of scientists, engineers, and innovators who have been ...

Two researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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