Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

For the past two decades, biology textbooks have described CENP-E as a motor protein that moves along microtubules. The ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...

Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.

Motor proteins are tiny "machines" inside cells that use chemical energy to move along molecular tracks and carry out essential processes like chromosome segregation during cell division. When a cell ...

cell. However, it presents significant challenges of its own. One of these is extra chromosomes. A normal gamete contains one set of 23 chromosomes, half the number found in most body cells. A gamete ...

In a surprising discovery, MIT scientists found tiny loops in the genomes of dividing cells. Enabled by a high-resolution ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning ...

The answer – if you didn’t guess from the picture, above – is the Y chromosome. This is part of human DNA that makes foetuses ...

From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often ...

An X chromosome gene appears to drive inflammation in the brain, and may explain why women are more likely to develop MS, per ...