After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective ...

Scientists uncover a basic principle that shows how higher nutrient levels change the pace of cell growth, revealing a ...

This remarkable “resurrection” plant can dry out almost completely, lie dormant for years, only to return to life within ...

Researchers from Shandong Agricultural University, led by professors Zhang Xiansheng (second from left) and Su Yinghua (second from right), have revealed how a single plant cell can develop into a ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed to act as a motor dragging chromosomes into place during cell division, in ...

How misfolded proteins are segregated and cleared is a significant question in mechanistic cell biology, since clearance of these aggregates can protect against pathologies that may otherwise arise.

For over a century, biology students have been taught a simple idea about cell division. Before splitting into two identical daughter cells, a parent cell becomes round – like a sphere – and then ...

Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain ...

If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that during ...

In a discovery with potential practical applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers and plant biologists capture first live images In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of ...