About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

“A key moment in the laboratory was when, after many hours, we suddenly observed the chromosomes condensing and the cell continuing its division cycle,” says Gobran, first author of the study. A new ...

From their data, the scientists realized that during cell division, DNA forms loops in two stages ... we see in the shape the genome takes in interphase and mitosis under the microscope." ...

Cell division allows a single fertilized egg to ... study now published in the scientific magazine EMBO Journal. A new microscopy assay developed by Gobran made this discovery possible.

A research team at Kumamoto University has developed a groundbreaking deep learning-based method for analyzing the cytoskeleton—the structural framework inside cells—more accurately and efficiently ...

New imaging tech reveals living cell processes, enhancing understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative & metabolic diseases for ...

Chinese and Australian researchers have developed a groundbreaking imaging technology that could transform the study of ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...