Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome separation during cell division. By studying related yeast species, ...

The study, by Dr Greg Ngo and Professor Duncan Baird from Cardiff University’s School of Medicine, reveals the mechanism behind chromoanasynthesis, a catastrophic type of chromosome rearrangement that ...

For many years, biology textbooks have explained hair growth in a simple way. They say that new cells form at the bottom of ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have produced experimental evidence that quantum-level effects can alter the ...

What you need to know: Authorities investigate death of detained suspect. A 32-year-old man arrested over alleged theft has reportedly died in police custody at Apac Central Police Station, with ...

The great Mormon butterfly is one in every 10,000 butterflies who is half male and half female. Scientists explained this butterfly have a rare condition known as "Gynandromorphism" which occurs when ...

Bill C-22 narrows the scope of the original legislation that sought to give police new powers to access internet user data ...

Imaging-based single-cell physiological profiling holds great potential for uncovering fundamental bacterial cold shock response (CSR) mechanisms, but its application is impeded by severe focus drift ...

Centromeres serve the same fundamental purpose across nearly all forms of life. These regions of DNA ensure that chromosomes are properly separated ...

An inmate at Northern State Prison in Newark has been charged in the beating death of his cellmate, but an attorney representing the victim’s family also says the corrections officers did nothing to ...

Confused by your power bill? Here is a breakdown of supply, transmission and delivery charges and why higher rates are ...

Are we all material—tissues and veins—or is there some nonmaterial substance, some essence, that transcends the corporeal ...