Human chromosomes can be differentiated from one another under a microscope by their lengths and by the position of the centromere.

structural details of chromosomes are difficult to detect under a light microscope. Thus, to make analysis more effective and efficient, cytologists have developed stains that bind with DNA and ...

Now, for the first time, EMBL scientists have directly observed this process in high resolution under the microscope using a new chromatin tracing method. The research is published in the journal Cell ...

The answer begins in the late 1800s, when insect gonad cells, whose large chromosomes are easy to view through a microscope, were the specimen of choice for investigating the cellular basis of ...