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

The flowerpot snake, one of the world's smallest snakes, has some unusual distinctions. Also known as the Brahminy blind ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), they captured the real-time process of ...

Transposons, or 'jumping genes' -- DNA segments that can move from one ... can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear chromosomes, called telomeres, within their bacterial host.

The Y-STR technique works by zeroing in on the characteristics of the Y-chromosome which is only present in the DNA of human ...