At different times during the life cycle of a cell, the DNA that makes up the cell's chromosomes can be tightly compacted into a structure that is visible under a microscope, or it can be more ...

This produces a beads-on-a-string structure. This most basic unit of DNA can be further organized into a higher-order structure called chromatin. This is a 30nm fibre that forms from coiling of ...

Cell copying machine: How daughters look like their mothers Date: April 21, 2016 Source: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia Summary: Tiny structures in our cells, called centrioles, control both cell ...

While some subcellular organelles, like the endoplasmic reticulum, are known to be capable of self-assembly outside of cells, this is the first time researchers have observed reorganization in larger ...

In October 2023, a research study out of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that the entirety of womens’ brain structure actually fluctuates throughout the menstrual cycle ...

If the cell cycle were like a particular score played by a molecular orchestra, E2F7 was a new conductor, guiding the same instruments in that orchestra to play a new tune, the multiciliation cycle.