When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells.

A physical mechanism underpins the resistance of cancer cells to common drugs, according to a discovery by cancer cell biologist, Peter Gunning, and his team at the University of New South Wales in ...

Scientists have a solid understanding of what makes up spindles — the cellular machinery that separates chromosomes — but are less certain about how the building blocks of spindles, called ...

The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are color-coded according to imaging depth, and chromosomes are shown in gray. Most ...