He is active in films. He is active on social media. He writes often. But for the last 21 days, he has been showing his ...

Animals that rely exclusively on parthenogenesis to reproduce, like the flowerpot snake, are called obligate parthenogens, ...

A "Jeopardy!" show recently asked what animal had the most chromosomes. This month's River Life column tells us more about answer: the hermit crab.

Before cells divide, they replicate the double-stranded DNA of each chromosome. The replication machinery does a good job of copying the nucleotide sequences until it gets to the telomeres ...

The problem with quantum mechanics, or at least the reason even physicists don’t understand it, isn’t that it paints an unfamiliar picture of reality. It isn’t difficult to accept that the ...

An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped chromosomes ...