In monthly reports, Dept. of Juvenile Justice facilities say they struggle with inadequate staffing, costly overtime and ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

For almost 60 years, scientists have tried to understand why DNA doesn't replicate wildly and uncontrollably every time a ...

Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early embryonic development have remained elusive—particularly for egg-laying species ...

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins. But new research led by Utrecht University scientist Jack Li shows that RNA ...

The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are color-coded according to imaging depth, and chromosomes are shown in gray. Most ...

As I walked through Pocahontas Island — the oldest free Black community in the United States — on my 3,000-mile journey across America, I felt the weight of history and the hope of tomorrow. This walk ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — KOIN 6 and Portland’s CW are partnering with the Sunshine Division for a special Day of Giving on Thursday as the Sunshine Division steps up to increase its home delivery ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed to act as a motor dragging chromosomes into place during cell division, in ...

Periodic wetting and drying occur extensively in many shallow water systems such as coastal wetlands. Proper description of the wetting and drying front (WDF) is a challenge for hydrodynamic models of ...