For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process ...

It also touches on the implications of mitosis in healing and the potential consequences of its disruption, such as cancer or damage from radiation. Keywords mitosis, cell division, chromosomes, DNA, ...

Researchers successfully use a nonviral, piggyBac transposon system to introduce a transgene into cynomolgus monkeys.

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Version of Record: This is the final version of the article. Ghone et al show that HIV-1 Vif causes a pseudo-metaphase arrest rather than a G2 arrest. The metaphase arrest correlates with ...

Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (fig 6) on metaphase chromosomes from proband 3 (III.4) using probe JC2216 (10p15) showed hybridisation of comparable intensity to the terminal region of both the ...

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

Abstract Rare and common genetic variants contribute to the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Although ion channels were among the first AF candidate genes identified, rare loss-of-function variants ...

Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies the composition, structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological ...