To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms a compact X-shaped structure with two rod-like copies. How the cell ...

The story of the cell cycle is often told only through the perspective of the chromosomes as they replicate and then divide. This resource beautifully illustrates the role of the cytoskeleton in that ...

a fertilized egg would contain 92 chromosomes and be untenable. Meiosis, a type of cell division specific to reproduction, avoids this by halving the number of chromosomes in a cell. The cell ...

This illustration shows the structure of a chromosome, highlighting how DNA is tightly packed around disc-shaped proteins to form the characteristic X-shaped figure seen during cell division. (Image: ...

An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped chromosomes ...

My research focuses on the segregation of chromosomes during cell division. Chromosomes are the bodies that contain our DNA and it’s critical that each cell has the correct DNA in the correct quantity ...

It results from errors in the segregation of chromosomes from the mother cell to the two daughter cells during mitosis, i.e., ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they divide, a key process in keeping cells healthy. Using yeast, the ...

A decade earlier, my doctoral work had centered on trying to understand how chromosomes in normal cells are evenly distributed between the two daughter cells during mitosis. The process is so ...

Chromosomes carry an organism's genetic information in the form of DNA—accurately copying the blueprint down from parents to offspring during cell division and reproduction. Cells divide to form ...

The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the ... and mitosis involves the appearance of a cell's chromosomes. During interphase, individual chromosomes are not visible ...

Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells. During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to ...