Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully ...

When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separate, with one going to each daughter cell. But there have been whole genome duplication events in organisms in which both ...

A cell copies all six billion letters of its DNA, gears up to split, and then simply… doesn’t. It sits there, swollen with ...

Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...

Unlike humans, many plants have more than two sets of chromosomes. This trait may help them adapt to environmental upheaval, such as climate change.

In whole genome duplication, the copies are made but not separated, leaving one folder with both copies. Whole genome duplication is not just a minor error; it can influence whether a cell continues ...

When cancer spreads from a primary tumor to new sites throughout the body, it undergoes changes that increase its genetic complexity. A new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and ...

Evolved macroscopic "snowflake" yeast from the MuLTEE experiment. The large size of the nuclei (yellow) and cells (cyan) are results of whole-genome duplication and aneuploidy. Sometimes, the most ...

A new study shows that how a cell fails to divide after copying its DNA can determine its fate. Cell division is one of the most fundamental and complex processes underpinning life. In human cells, ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic ...