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

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

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

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

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

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process ...

Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the ...

“Reduced telomere length can be caused by embryonic cellular damage,” said study co-lead Dr. Yasmyn Winstanley. The ...

In the world of agriculture, a primary goal is maintaining genetic varieties necessary for evolution, be it crops or ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down syndrome — some people don’t believe it. “At the ...

The ovary is the female gonad, which houses egg cells. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, and each egg is ...