Genomic changes in the infectious yeast Candida tropicalis may play a role in its resistance to antifungals, according to a ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it ...

When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separated and one goes to each daughter cell. But ...

Did you know men and women's heart cells prefer different kinds of fuel? Gender differences are emerging as scientists turn ...

I received permission from Dr. Barbara Lukert to publish this in the Emporia Gazette. I met Dr. Lukert early in my ministry at Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, ...

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The Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to erase the existence of transgender people are often defended in the name of the so-called “common sense” of “biological sex.” For instance, in  Executive ...

Let’s just say, hypothetically, there is a person who happens to have all their pesky hormones and chromosomes arranged in a certain way, causing them to go through life as a heterosexual man; and at ...

Chromosomes are cellular structures that contain the genetic material. A chromosome is comprised of a single DNA molecule that may be either circular or linear. The full complement of a cell s ...

The improper segregation of chromosomes during cell division leads to abnormalities that disrupt the proper functioning of the cell. Cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes consequently activate ...

If my time at Cambridge has taught me anything, it’s that there’s a particular comfort in returning to the arms of old fascinations. Despite my academic pivot towards the drier terrain of POLIS papers ...

The answer could lie in exceptional DNA. Scientists at UC San Francisco found that parts of our chromosomes have evolved at breakneck speeds to give us an edge in brain development compared to apes.