Chromosomes are cellular structures that contain the genetic material. A chromosome is comprised of a single DNA molecule that may be either circular or linear. The full complement of a cell s ...

CMRI researchers discovered that DNA repair pathways control how cancer cells die after radiotherapy. Blocking a key repair ...

Mitosis orchestrates eukaryotic cell division, maintaining genetic fidelity and playing a key role in development, tissue homeostasis, and cancer progression.

The term 4×4 means a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Technically, the first digit is the number of wheels and the second is the number that are driven, so a four-wheel-drive pickup truck is a 4×4 ...

In mammals, inches-long segments of DNA are compacted into a chromosome less than 10 μm long via a multi-level process [4]. This process begins with the formation of nucleosomes, wherein DNA wraps ...

James Turner, Principal Group Leader of the Sex Chromosome Biology Laboratory at the Crick, and senior author, said: "Infertility is a big problem, with 1 in 6 couples struggling to conceive.

Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X chromosome is needed – so the other is randomly inactivated. Some cells use ...

Mitosis ensures genome integrity by mediating precise segregation of the duplicated ... Prophase is the first mitotic stage and is characterized by the nuclear envelope breakdown, condensation of ...

Here we focus on lessons from recent advancement in genetical and cytological studies of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, revealing how chromosomes, cytoskeleton, and cell cycle ...