Mitosis is the complex process in which duplicated chromosomes are condensed, segregated with the help of the mitotic spindle, and packaged in to daughter cell nuclei. Mitosis occurs in five ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and ...

The Annual Ligase Targeting Drug Development Summit, now in its 4th year, will unite 80+ ligase experts dedicated to tackling ligase bottlenecks through data-driven presentations, technical ...

A paper in Molecular Cell reports the characterization of a second functional light strand promoter (LSP2) in the mitochondrial genome, challenging the view that mitochondrial DNA replication and ...