chromosomes that undergo segregation errors during mitosis end up in small DNA-containing structures called micro-nuclei, separate from the primary nucleus. Micronuclei have long been appreciated as a ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

"When DNA damaged by radiation therapy was repaired by a method called homologous recombination, cancer cells died during the ...

Lance Xu is a junior completing a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and currently conducting cancer research. He ...

Mitosis in baker's yeast can also tell us ... In particular, he was interested in "the cancer problem": Why are cancer cells unable to control themselves? What goes wrong during their life cycle?

4 Loss of mitotic exit checkpoints in cancer cells leads to mitotic dysregulation, resulting in aberrant proliferation 5.

For chromosomes to form the iconic X-shape that ensures the accurate passing of genetic information during cell division, a ...

As the tumour grows, cancer cells may fail to attach to each other, spreading through the body where they may form secondary tumours. This process is called metastasis. Characteristics Grow quickly.

They include the cytoskeleton, a dynamic internal protein network that gives cells their shape and their ability to move — a key function that spreading cancer cells can turn to their advantage. Our ...

Body cells replicate periodically (through mitosis, or cell division), but normal cells respond to their surrounding cells and replicate only to replace other cells. Sometimes a genetic mutation ...

During sexual reproduction, haploid gametes (i.e. eggs and sperm) are generated from diploid precursors through the specialized cell division of meiosis. Meiosis reduces ploidy by following one round ...