A team of scientists studying cell division developed a special light microscopy system and used it to analyze the molecular density of cellular environments. Their results provide a novel insight ...

(A) Histone staining images and OI-DIC density imaging of human living cells in the interphase (the phase between cell divisions, left) and mitotic phase (right). The bottom two rows are OI-DIC ...

Japanese researchers report a new ion detector, MARIO. Using it, they show that changes in the intracellular concentration of free magnesium ions (Mg 2+) is critical for the chromosome folding that ...

The established dogma in radiation sciences that underlies radiation protection and therapeutic applications is that radiation effects require induction of DNA damage only in cells that are directly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The effect of the DNA polymerase inhibitor β-arabinofuranosyladenine (araA) on radiation-induced damage was studied at the cell survival and ...

The molecular understanding of chromosome condensation has been hampered by the lack of useful mutants and by the low resolution of cytological staining procedures. However, modern imaging ...

In early cytological studies chromatids of metaphase chromosomes were suggested to coil into a spiral called chromonema. This assumption was recently supported by chromosomce conformation capture ...

Individual cells divide through a process called mitosis, during which the cell's copied DNA is separated between two resulting daughter cells. Despite recent advances in cell biology, the mechanism ...

Researchers at the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences have discovered that a little-known protein called ATF7IP2 helps to inactivate the X and Y chromosomes during cell divisions that lead to ...