Researchers discovered a kinase-driven phosphorylation switch that activates DNA packaging machinery, aligning nucleosomes at ...

Study: Characterizing the evolutionary dynamics of cancer proliferation in single-cell clones with SPRINTER. Image Credit: Anusorn Nakdee/Shutterstock.com In a recent study published in Nature ...

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells that can produce all cell types of an organism. ES cells proliferate rapidly and have been thought to experience high levels of intrinsic ...

(Nanowerk News) By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists ...