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 can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

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.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys and collaborators across the country published findings March 5, 2025, in Nature ...

For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

New research uncovers new insights into preventing chronic inflammation caused by aging-related zombie-like cells. In humans ...

the so-called central dogma of molecular biology describes how protein synthesis occurs through transcription and translation ...

The result is an innovative new technique that uses a novel DNA barcode system to track hundreds of RNA and protein molecules in single cells within thick biological samples, providing researchers ...