In human cells, DNA carries chemical or "epigenetic" marks that decide how genes will be used in different tissues. Yet in a ...

A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female ...

More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only for increased access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those ...

The cell-division processes of mitosis and meiosis are still described in gendered language that was established in the early 1900s. So-called sister chromatids — the two copies formed by a ...