Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

Scientists didn’t understand how bacteria divide up carbon sources into different paths for energy or to build new materials. Professor Ludmilla Aristilde; Professor Niall Mangan; Postdoctoral ...

A research team from The University of Osaka, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has uncovered a new molecular mechanism underlying chromosome alignment during cell ...

Bacteria have been generally greatly overlooked in the aspect of intra- and extra-cellular homeostasis, and yet, since they have evolved intricate processes and mechanisms allowing them not only to ...

AMES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa State University researchers have unlocked new secrets within the bacteria responsible for the creation of thousands of fruits and vegetables as we know them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa State University agronomy professor Kan Wang has spent her career studying Agrobacterium. (Photo by Brooklyn Draisey/Iowa ...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens magnified 15,000 times in an image captured earlier this year with a scanning electron microscope at Iowa State University's Roy J. Carver High Resolution Microscopy Facility ...

ABSTRACT: Aim: The centromere protein family members (CENPs) are a mitosis-associated protein family. Accumulative evidence indicates that CENPs are abnormally expressed and affect the occurrence and ...

For the first time, scientists have created fertilizable human eggs from skin cells—an advance that the researchers say could pave the way for new infertility treatments, though the technology remains ...

Cannabis consumption may adversely affect female fertility by impairing egg quality and other factors involved in embryo development, new research suggested. In a study that included both clinical and ...

Mechanistic model for G9a-H3K9me2 in preserving centromere integrity. G9a-mediated H3K9me2 at centromeres prevents the invasion of H3K9me3 into core centromeric domains, which ensures proper ...