Prokaryotic cells, which include bacteria, undergo a type of cell division known as binary fission. This process involves replication of the cell's chromosomes, segregation of the copied DNA ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

Fission yeast cells with single mRNA molecules of two ultra-low noise genes labeled with fluorophores (green and magenta). The cell nucleus, where RNA is synthesized, and the cell outlines are ...

The electron tomogram of a complete yeast cell reveals the cellular architecture. It shows plasma membrane, microtubules and light vacuoles (green), nucleus, dark vacuoles and dark vesicles (gold ...

Gene regulation underpins nearly every biological process—from cell development to responses ... that control gene expression—work in fission yeast, a key model organism for studying gene ...

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right ...

A paper published last week in the journal Nature detailed how scientists at MIT demonstrated how an effect known as singlet exciton fission could be applied to silicon solar cells and could lead ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species--including plants, fungi, and even humans--are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called ...

Normally, these genes are responsible for cells fission, but in this experiment, they could not cause liver regeneration. It turned out that liver tissues can nonetheless repair themselves.