Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause, which may be linked to the sex hormone estrogen and explain why they are less susceptible to certain infectious ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause ... and testosterone in males – are thought to play a role in these differences, as are the sex chromosomes (XX in ...

Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected ...

Martin Barraud / Getty Images Fixed costs, variable costs, and total costs all sound similar, but there are significant differences among the three. The main difference is that fixed costs do not ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes may have similar names, but they have different causes. The key difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes is that type 1 is associated with an autoimmune response ...

Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the ...