Researchers have made a surprising new discovery in the structure of the centromere, a structure that is involved in ensuring that chromosomes are segregated properly when a cell divides. Mistakes in ...

Scientists have found that the structure of chromosomes is supported by a kind of molecular skeleton, made of cohesin. Jan-Michael Peters and his team at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. American Journal of Botany Vol. 13, No. 2, Feb., 1926 Chromosome Structure and Its Relation to... 1.

A new method for visualising chromosomes is painting a truer picture of their shape, which is rarely like the X-shaped blob of DNA most of us are familiar with. Scientists at the BBSRC-funded Babraham ...

A chemical found in dark chocolate could slow the rate of biological aging. Research from King's College London has found that the chemical theobromine, a common plant compound that comes from cocoa, ...

Chromosomes carry our basic genetic material. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Your DNA blueprint (genome) doesn't exist as one ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We have used light microscopy and serial thin-section electron microscopy to visualize intermediates of chromosome decondensation during G1 ...

A few years ago, people were focusing on the lack of human genetic diversity. At the level of individual DNA bases, any two humans were well over 99 percent identical. With the completion of the human ...