Cramming meters-long DNA strands into a cell’s tiny nucleus is an astonishing feat. A new study suggests that cells from plants (shown), animals and fungi accomplish it one of two ways. Ed ...

Scientists have uncovered how a newly discovered gene, NEK1, in which mutations have been linked to ALS cases, disrupts the function of the motor neuron and causes it to degenerate and die.

Nucleons, which include protons and neutrons, are the composite particles that make up atomic nuclei. While these particles have been widely studied in the past, their internal structure has not yet ...

New research from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is tackling a complex packing problem. Thanks to the development of a powerful new computational tool introduced in a study published earlier ...

People typically inherit gene and chromosome variants from their biological parents, but changes in the structure or function of both can also take place during a person’s lifetime.

Iowa State astronomers have revealed that a well-known, nearby galaxy has a rare double-nucleus structure. Their paper reporting the discovery is now online and has been accepted for publication ...