The last step of the cell cycle is the brief but spectacularly dynamic and complicated mitosis phase, which leads to the duplication of one mother cell into two daughter cells. In mitosis, the chromosomes condense and the ...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem cells are the body's primal cells, retaining the youthful ability to develop into more specialized types of cells over many cycles of cell division. How do they do it? Scientists at the Carnegie Institution ...
Jan 7, 2009
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There are many known sex differences in health and disease: cases in which either men or women are more likely to get a disease, experience a symptom, or have a certain drug side effect. Some of these sex differences are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 7, 2024
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A study of horses—which share many important similarities with humans in their chromosomes and pregnancies—revealed that 42% of miscarriages and spontaneous abortions in the first two months of pregnancy were due to complications ...
Veterinary medicine
Aug 5, 2024
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have taken a big step in solving the mystery around why animals evolve sex chromosomes. It had long been proposed that sex chromosomes evolved to reduce "sexual conflict," the ...
Evolution
Aug 5, 2024
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have mapped the spatial distribution of around 700 long non-coding RNAs, otherwise known as lncRNAs, in the testes. The team discovered much higher levels of lncRNAs in the testes ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 30, 2024
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UNSW Sydney researchers have made new discoveries of fundamental differences in biological processes between males and females—by interrogating the unique and diverse sex chromosome systems of the platypus and the chicken.
Plants & Animals
Jul 30, 2024
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An international research collaboration has uncovered a new mechanism of the crosstalk between microtubules and actin cytoskeleton during cell division and revealed unique characteristics of the previously unexplored protein ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 16, 2024
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"We discovered a pronounced 'men are from Mars, women are from Venus' pattern," says marine and environmental biologist Suzanne Edmands.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 25, 2024
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New research led by the University of Bath's Milner Centre for Evolution shows that shorebird species where females breed with multiple males in each season evolve significantly faster than monogamous species. Their findings ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2024
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