Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about the genetic structure of ovarian cancer stem cells, ...

During interphase, individual chromosomes are not visible, and the chromatin appears diffuse ... are located outside the nucleus in animal cells, the microtubules of the developing spindle do ...

Polycomb proteins are used to maintain a repressive chromatin state in both kingdoms but appear to function differently in the stem cells: they repress differentiation genes in animal stem cells ...

A novel technique to visualize gene-active and gene-repressive DNA regions in living cells, developed by a ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parse Biosciences, the leader in accessible and scalable single cell sequencing, today affirmed their plans to proceed with development and future release of their ...

Different types of brain cells could age at different speeds ... Aging is known to cause changes to the chromatin of animal models, impacting an individual's lifespan. But the field of research ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...