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

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

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

DNA analysis is crucial for identifying individuals and their relatives, using technologies like PCR, electrophoresis, and ...

A novel technique to visualize gene-active and gene-repressive DNA regions in living cells, developed by a ...

A test for abnormal fetal chromosomes can also detect maternal cancers—and physicians are struggling to incorporate that ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

Saccharin destabilizes bacterial membranes and interferes with DNA replication, causing lysis and impairing virulence traits.

Utrecht University has appointed Bas van Steensel as Special Professor of Chromosome Biology. Van Steensel will lead fundamental research into how chromosomes function and how genetic information is ...

Alan Herbert, explores the understanding of genome information storage, and the significance of repetitive sequences called ...

Cell aging has always been an important topic in biological research, and telomere shortening is one of the key issues in ...