In a major leap for synthetic biology, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru have found a way to control human cell division with flashes of blue light. The team has ...

Inside each human cell, about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of genomic DNA must be accurately copied and equally transmitted to two ...

Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been in place since the earliest bacteria. The ...

The adult heart may be trying to repair itself after a heart attack—it just struggles to finish the job. For decades, the adult heart was treated as an organ with almost no ability to replace the ...

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 ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...