Hour Clock"?When studying biology, you encounter mysterious numbers.In human cultured cells, there are cases where the time ...

In a major leap for synthetic biology, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru have found a way to control human cell division with flashes of blue light. The team has ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been in place since the earliest bacteria. The ...

Inside each human cell, about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of genomic DNA must be accurately copied and equally transmitted to two ...

Cell division, a process fundamental to life, still holds surprises. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the ...

The adult heart may be trying to repair itself after a heart attack—it just struggles to finish the job. For decades, the adult heart was treated as an organ with almost no ability to replace the ...

Cells that acquire a doubled genome after a failed division step survive and proliferate far more effectively than cells left with scrambled chromosome counts from botched splits during mitosis. A ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...