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

Researchers harness the power of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to simulate the inner workings of cellular ...

The lesion containing DNA strand is shown in cyan ... Mapping of XP and XP/CS disease mutations onto the PInC community structure. Dynamic communities from network analysis are colored as denoted ...

Scientists have finally captured footage of the microscopic machinery that allows our cells to copy DNA—a fundamental process necessary for life itself. Using a sophisticated imaging technique that ...

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

EMBL scientists have shown how overlapping loops of DNA stack upon each other in dividing cells to give rise to rod-shaped chromosomes As the cell ...

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

A new study suggests a far more intricate genetic tapestry is involved in the ultimate ancestry of people in Japan.