A research team from the School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in ...

HKUMed used the ancient choanoflagellate SOX protein to create stem cells and implanted them into mice, successfully contributing to healthy mice. The ...

In this context, it seems likely that previous successes in the cloning of “adult somatic cells” have been attributable ... and ultimately individual organisms. Nuclear transfer is believed ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which ...

The prebiotic Earth was a harsh and unstable environment, characterized by intense heat, active volcanoes and little ...

BP1 is a key player in DNA repair and together with BRCA1 regulate selection of DNA double strand break repair mechanisms. Localization of DNA repair factors to sites of DNA damage by 53BP1 is ...

Microfluidics experiments and simulations show that magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the geomagnetic field strength for optimal navigation in sediment environments.

The immense variation in the amount of DNA contained in the cells of organisms has long fascinated scientists. Known as the genome size (GS), or C-value of a species, the amount of DNA in one entire ...