Discovery offers new insights into the processes that drive cell proliferation and may influence cancer growth, and could ...

Living cells are one of the few materials that can replicate themselves, and this is crucial for tissue development and ...

A new study in The EMBO Journal reveals that the cancer-linked gene E2F1 can trigger cell division via a shortcut that ...

A cell copies all of its DNA, gears up to split in two, and then just… doesn’t. It sits there, swollen with a double genome, and nobody notices. This kind of silent failure has been observed in labs ...

Scientists have recently been learning more about the importance of small bits of circular genetic material known as extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). These little circles of DNA can hitch a ride with ...

In each cell of your body, DNA is stored in structures called chromosomes. When cells divide, these chromosomes are copied, but over time, the copying process degrades. After many cycles of making ...

If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew in the 1966 science fiction classic "Fantastic Voyage"—one of their first ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

Cell polarity underpins the spatial organisation of cells during development, establishing axes that direct asymmetric division, tissue patterning and morphogenesis. Mechanisms of symmetry breaking ...

UCLA researchers grew brain cells from dozens of genetically distinct donors together in a cell village, then built a statistical tool called Townlet to measure each donor's cell fitness — how well ...

Four revision quizzes on cell division and genetic information for Cambridge International AS Level Biology 9700. Each quiz has seven questions worth 20 marks. Includes four student quizzes, four ...