Cell division is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information. Each chromosome within a plant contains a ...

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) have made a major discovery about cancer cells. This new ...

SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Tiny versions of chromosomes show up in things like birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

The rules about what to wear for fine dining used to be black and white, but many places now leave it to patrons' discretion.

Here’s a quick reality check: ice cream sales go up in summer, and so do drownings. But no one thinks Ben & Jerry's is a silent killer. It’s correlation, not causation. Yet this same logical ...

As China moves more decisively to assert its claim over Taiwan, leaders of the self-governing island are setting aside ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.