New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Experiments on yeast show that the nuclear pore complex has a central role in the loss of chromosomes associated with aging.

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...

Frogs have made significant contributions to Fred Hutch science over the years as a model organism that shares much of our ...

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MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Nearly half of all babies born with Down syndrome face congenital heart defects, often involving serious malformations ...

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can receive a full set of genetic material. Until now, scientists had believed that ...

That changed in 2014, when Swedish scientists showed that Y loss in blood cells correlates with how long men live – those who have Y loss in some of their cells die five years sooner. Many further ...