In most animal, plant and fungal cells DNA is stored in the nucleus coiled up in thread-like structures called chromosomes. The nucleus of one of your skin cells contains about two metres of DNA ...

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But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

How is the same process responsible for genetic recombination and diversity also the cause of aneuploidy? Understanding the steps of meiosis is essential to learning how errors occur. Researchers ...

Using single-cell DNA sequencing we show that most healthy women harbour rare populations of aneuploid epithelial cells with copy number alteration events in their breast tissue that expand and ...

Results from the study also showed the potential association between smoking, disease progression and survival in patients ...

Researchers are one step closer to understanding the genetic mechanisms behind wilt disease and how it affects Arabic and ...

Outer membrane DNA on EVs, as captured by atomic force microscopy, reveals a "beads-on-a-string" chromatin structure. In the ...

Scientists have 'turned up the heat' on how repeated outbreaks of coffee wilt disease threatened arabica and robusta varieties of our favorite daily coffee brew. The scientists say the fungal pathogen ...

Scientists, including those from Imperial College London, University of Oxford and CABI, have ‘turned up the heat’ on how ...

The hotspot at chr3q28 sits between the GMNC and osteocrin (OSTN) genes. They are involved in DNA replication and dendritic arborization, respectively. The 208 proteins linked to this region, all ...

FipA is a novel component required for bacteria that rely on FlhF/FlhG to properly localize their flagella to the cell pole.