Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause, which may be linked to the sex hormone ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

During mitosis, the chromatin undergoes a dynamic reorganization important for faithful chromosome segregation. Here the authors show that the DEAD-box RNA helicase eIF4A1/2 regulates the ...

It also touches on the implications of mitosis in healing and the potential consequences of its disruption, such as cancer or damage from radiation. Keywords mitosis, cell division, chromosomes, DNA, ...

The answer could lie in exceptional DNA. Scientists at UC San Francisco have found that parts of our chromosomes have evolved at breakneck speeds to give us an edge in brain development compared ...

People who have one of several well-documented medical conditions do not have only XX or XY chromosomes, which typically correspond with female and male sexes, respectively. Those conditions ...

HIV-1 Vif induces a unique and prolonged pseudo-metaphase arrest by disrupting phosphatase feedback regulation at the kinetochore.