According to a recent study, mitotic chromosomes are coated in a liquid-like coating that could enable them to bounce off one ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Scientists have solved a decade-long question about the mechanism that preserves the centromere, the hub that ensures DNA ...

To investigate how cells maintain their proteostasis during cell division, we employed a proteostasis reporter consists of a firefly luciferase mutant prone for protein mis-folding and protein ...

However, if a cell is long and thin it will usually generate asymmetrical daughter cells that are differently shaped. "The phenomenon of mitosis, or cell division, is one of the fundamentals of life ...

Because asymmetric cell division can cause cells to behave in ways cause them to metastasize, it change how we understand the division of cancerous cells and the spread of cancer, which could lead ...

By forming oscillating patterns between the ends of a cell (poles), the Min protein system provides protection against abnormal cell division in bacteria. Despite decades of theoretical work ...

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 ...

When a cell divides, the double helix of DNA is divided, as well. Centromeres coordinate the precise, nearly perfect matchmaking of the separated strands with their associated enzymes in each new ...

Left alone the abnormal cells can replicate their genome again, shuffle the chromosomes at the next division, and a growing cancer begins.