MR. ROSS may be congratulated on having written a book singularly unlike most sober scientific treatises. He has been continually on the track of new things, and even the frontispiece, purporting to ...

Timelapse of a gene-edited medaka fish embryo undergoing mitosis. The mitotic spindle – the green strands in the middle of the cells – can be seen aligning and segregating duplicated chromosomes, ...

Cell division is one of the most fundamental processes of life. From bacteria to blue whales, every living being on Earth relies on cell division for growth, reproduction, and species survival. Yet, ...

New research sheds light on embryonic mitosis, thanks to a combination of novel imaging techniques, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology, a modern protein-knockdown system, and medaka, or Japanese ...

A team of US scientists has developed a "proof-of-concept" technique they say has the potential to one day help infertile people have their own biological children. The research — which is in ...