Dr. Christiane Ritz from the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Görlitz and Dr. Aleš Kovařík from the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences has achieved a significant ...

To examine the fates of lagging chromosomes, we utilized nocodazole treatment to increase the incidence of the GFP-tagged laggards (Supplementary information, Figure S3) and employed live cell ...

This raised the question, says Martienssen, "of whether a cell might be able ... biological understanding of chromosome regulation. It could also be a boon to plant breeders, who, explains ...

Sometimes the daughter cells will end up with the wrong numbers of chromosomes, and these faults can affect their function and future division. When this happens, the cells are described as aneuploid.

If you unraveled all the DNA from a single human cell and placed it ... have just one or two circular chromosomes, a fruit fly has eight chromosomes, a rice plant 24, and a dog 78.

For a living cell to divide successfully, each daughter cell must inherit the correct genetic material. In eukaryotes, segregation of duplicated chromosomes is performed by the mitotic spindle, a ...

A DNA tether (red) acts as a rescuing life-line to pull chromosome fragments (blue) into the daughter nuclei during cell division. (Image credit: Ann Royou) The DNA vital to the life of a cell is ...

But if chromosomes are damaged, they can cause birth defects, disabilities, growth problems, even death. "You're taking adult or a child's skin cells. You're not causing any loss of an embryo ...

Most living cells have a defined number of chromosomes: Human cells, for example, have 23 pairs. As cells divide, they can make errors that lead to a gain or loss of chromosomes, which is usually very ...

Without this constant telomere repair, chromosomes would eventually degrade and cancer cells would die. Without the interaction of telomerase with telomeres, cancer cells would be mortal.