Lorraine C. Backer, Marc R. Sontag and James W. Allen Synaptonemal complexes reveal mutagen-induced effects in germ cell meiotic chromosomes. This study was aimed at characterizing relationships ...

Researchers have proposed a novel molecular mechanism for the living cell's remarkable ability to detect the alignment of replicated chromosomes on the mitotic spindle in the final phase of the cell ...

Osaka, Japan - Before cell division when a parent cell divides into two daughter cells, each with an identical set of genetic information, replicated chromosomes become condensed and align along the ...

Gregory Pincus, at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in the U.S., described in 1935 the first experimental conditions that allowed mammalian oocytes (from rabbit) to mature in vitro, ...

New research reveals role for calcium ions in chromosome condensation during mitosis; high-resolution imaging of living cells reveals compact, globular chromosomes in the presence of calcium that ...