Cell division requires the regulation of karyokinesis and cytokinesis, which includes an essential role of the achromatic spindle. Although the functions of centrosomes are well characterised in ...

The meiotic cell cycle is characterized by high levels of recombination induced by DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), which appear after completion of premeiotic S phase1,2,3,4,5, leading to the ...

Function of towers The team observed the natural dauer towers waving in unison, much like individual nematodes do by standing on their tails to latch onto a passing animal. But their new findings ...

Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of the Great Barrier Reef's diverse and magnificent corals frozen in time.

Recent reports provide evidence for a functional link between kinetochores and spindle bipolarization in oocytes. In mouse oocytes, NDC80, which forms a heterodimer with NUF2 and serves as a major ...