Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed to act as a motor dragging chromosomes into place during cell division, in ...

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

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

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

Motor proteins are tiny "machines" inside cells that use chemical energy to move along molecular tracks and carry out ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

This interesting study adapts machine learning tools to analyze movements of a chromatin locus in living cells in response to serum starvation. The machine learning approach developed is useful, the ...

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

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Researchers have identified the exact DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse to form Robertsonian chromosomes, a ...

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