How diseases develop and how the body ages can differ between females and males, but the biological reasons for these ...
Cells that acquire a doubled genome after a failed division step survive and proliferate far more effectively than cells left ...
Scientists discovered a new gene family on the Y chromosome of deer mice, challenging the belief that the chromosome only ...
Damage to DNA in cancer cells can lead to pieces breaking off chromosomes and floating away, like icebergs cracking off from ...
Scientists have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they ...
In each cell of your body, DNA is stored in structures called chromosomes. When cells divide, these chromosomes are copied, ...
As the cell proceeds through the stages of cell division (from left to right: interphase, prometaphase, metaphase, and anaphase), chromosomes become progressively more compact through a combination of ...
It's tricky to make an exact copy of yourself. Or at least it is for cells undergoing mitosis, where cells replicate ...
Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the available technologies did not allow them ...
Scientists in Japan have developed a rat-mouse hybrid embryo from a single frozen rat chromosome transplanted into a mouse ...