Scientists have uncovered an unexpected function for a crucial protein involved in cell division. Reported in two consecutive ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

Scientists have recently been learning more about the importance of small bits of circular genetic material known as ...

The gastrointestinal tract is already known to researchers as a major storage site for micro- and nanoplastic particles (MNPs) in the human body. A research consortium has now investigated the effects ...

Before a cell commits fully to the process of dividing itself into two new cells, it may ensure the appropriateness of its commitment by staying for many hours - sometimes more than a day - in a ...

One of the hallmarks of cancer cells is their ability to evade apoptosis, or programmed cell death, through changes in ...

Findings UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that ...

Working with human breast and lung cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have charted a molecular pathway that can lure cells down a hazardous path of duplicating their genome too many ...

David Pellman (left) is a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (both MA, USA), who also has affiliations with Howard Hughes Medical Institute (MD, USA) and the ...

Dave Coulier recently revealed another cancer diagnosis, mere months after recovering from Stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma ...