About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it ...

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

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

A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and ...

In the first study, the researchers combined different microscopy techniques to demonstrate ... are important for transport ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a team of structural and molecular ... of new DNA to be distributed to the daughter cells.” Benjamin Allwein During cell division, the familiar ...

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

GAS2 is a cytoskeletal regulator that interacts with both F-actin and microtubules. Here, cryo-EM structures of GAS2 domains ...

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a team of structural ... of new DNA to be distributed to the daughter cells." During cell division, the familiar double-stranded DNA helix gets split ...