OpenSNP, an open-source genetic database, is shutting down on April 30, deleting all DNA data to protect users from ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

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.

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made 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 ...

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

“As the galactic tide acts to decouple bodies from the scattered disk it creates a spiral structure in physical space that is roughly 15,000 astronomical units in length,” writes Nesvorný. “The spiral ...

Members of the same species usually have DNA similar enough to have the same chromosomes and autosomes (chromosomes that don't code for sex-linked traits). In its structure, DNA contains a pattern ...