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

Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the ...

Scientists identify mutation patterns in healthy stomach lining, offering new insights into the earliest steps of cancer ...

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

Measuring the telomeres of 147 people for this study, the researchers found in one individual that the average telomere length across all chromosomes was 4,300 bases of DNA. Then when they ...

Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause, which may be linked to the sex hormone ...

By inserting into the telomeres, they're able to do both." Transposons have been found clustered at the chromosome ends in eukaryotic cells, but this is the first time it's been documented in ...

When the scientists fed these two assumptions into their model, they found that this was sufficient to give rise to a rod-shaped chromosome structure. "We realised that these condensin-driven ...

Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause, which may be linked to the sex hormone ...