The health impacts of men losing their Y chromosome from their cells are increasingly coming to light, with the loss playing ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected function for a crucial protein involved in cell division. Reported in two consecutive publications, the finding challenges long-accepted models and standard ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a ...

Certain chromosomes, the researchers found, exploit this asymmetry to move themselves over to the "right" side of a cell during division and wind up in the egg. By casting light on a common yet poorly ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Published on UNIGE scientists reveal how separase, a key enzyme in cell division, ensures the accurate separation of chromosomes. Schematic ...

On the other hand, direct observations of living cells demonstrated that individual sections of chromosomes move actively and rapidly. Scientists could not explain how such a dense globule could be so ...

Pulmonary fibrosis—also known in technical terms as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)—is a rare but life-threatening ...

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The ideal crop plant is tasty and high-yielding while also being resistant to diseases and pests. But if the relevant genes are far apart on a chromosome, some of these positive traits can be lost ...