A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

A new study in Nature Plants reveals that DNA double-strand break repair (DSBR) pathways help prevent gene transfer from ...

Symmetry is a fundamental characteristic of most multi-cell animals. However, the cell division of embryonic cells is ...

The liver has a unique structure, especially at the level of individual cells. Hepatocytes, the main liver cells, release ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are ...

Glial cells, once thought to serve only supportive roles in the brain, are now recognized as active participants in neural processing. Comprising ...

Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent cells isolated from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, the early mammalian embryo that implants into the uterus. Embryonic stem cells self-renew by dividing ...

Researchers engineered a new gene system in the parasite A. deanei using a bacteriophage enzyme and novel drug markers. This ...