Cell division is a process of remarkable precision: during each cycle, the genetic material must be evenly distributed between the two daughter cells. To achieve this, duplicated chromosomes, known as ...

On the other hand, direct observations of living cells demonstrated that individual sections of chromosomes move actively and rapidly. Scientists could not explain how such a dense globule could be so ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

Being born with two X chromosomes brings a host of health benefits, and recognising this could lead to personalised medical ...

Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of ...

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — ...

A research team from the University of Osaka, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has uncovered a new molecular mechanism underlying chromosome alignment during cell ...

Our DNA is arranged into chromosomes that carry a kind of protective shield at their ends, called telomeres. These protective ...

A Singaporean research team has developed CAN-Scan (short for Cancer Scan), a next-generation precision oncology platform ...

The oldest RNA ever reported until now came from a 14,300-year-old “wolf” puppy frozen in permafrost. But when Mármol-Sánchez ...

A research team from The University of Osaka, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has uncovered a new molecular mechanism underlying chromosome alignment during cell ...