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

A study led by Prof. Liu Feng from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a crucial role ...

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 ...

Congenital hearing loss refers to impaired auditory function that occurs due to genetic causes. GJB2 is the gene responsible ...

Researchers at the Center for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO) aim to find out why so many early embryos fail in ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

R75W mutation in the gap junction β2 (GJB2) gene causes severe fragmentation of gap junction plaques, connecting adjacent ...

Cell-free systems, which can express an easily detectable protein with a DNA or mRNA template without constraints of living ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Sickle cell disease commonly affects people of African and Caribbean backgrounds and can be life-threatening but campaigners ...

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