Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

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

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...