A "pocket" on the protein cyclin B is responsible for ensuring that the steps of cell division take place in the correct ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you ...

Female germ cells, or oogonia, stop dividing and enter meiosis within the ... only when they are ovulated in response to hormones. Human females, for example, are born with hundreds of thousands ...

Researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made an exciting discovery about how human cells protect DNA during cell division, offering new insights into combating diseases such as cancer.

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.