This important study demonstrates that a peri-nuclear actomyosin network, present in some types of human cells, facilitates kinetochore-spindle attachment of chromosomes in unfavorable locations - ...

Viruses insert “transposable elements” into the genetic material of host cells to replicate. While cells’ defense mechanisms have learned to silence most of these viral insertions, a few “jumping ...

A healthy human cell in mitosis, shown from nuclear envelope breakdown to chromosome separation in anaphase. Microtubules are shown in gray, while chromosomes are color-coded by depth, highlighting ...