Modern eukaryotic cells have proteins that enable chromosome segregation during cell division, new discoveries shed light on their origin in simpler prokaryotic organisms. Modern nucleated (eukaryotic ...

Prokaryotic cells, which include all bacteria and archaea, are ancient, and relatively simple compared to eukaryotic cells, which are found in fungi, plants, and animals. Scientists have long sought ...

In bacteria, the two defining processes of the cell cycle, chromosome replication and segregation, progress hand in hand. The roles of the enzymes and proteins involved in chromosome replication have ...

Telomeres are specialized nucleoprotein structures at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes that are essential for chromosome stability and cellular proliferation. Telomeric DNA does not encode for ...

A collection of papers published in Cell and Cell Genomics describes the activities of an international research consortium working on synthesizing the first fully synthetic eukaryotic genome using ...

In 2010, a separate team created the first bacterial organism with a functional, 1 million base pair synthetic genome. This latest study “is a significant milestone towards creation of the first fully ...

Our lab studies the mechanism of eukaryotic chromosome replication. Chromosomes are the carriers of the genetic and epigenetic information and faithful chromosome replication is of fundamental ...

In biology you must have come across the two types of cells, the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. These two are the most ...

The team heavily edited its synthetic chromosome, altering around one-sixth of its base pairs with additions, deletions, and replacements. Despite these changes, yeast cells that carried the designer ...

All modern organisms fall into two classes, eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Eukaryotes (from the Greek meaning “true kernel”) have a cell nucleus that harbours most of the cell’s genetic information and ...