As the cell proceeds through the stages of cell division (from left to right: interphase, prometaphase, metaphase, and anaphase), chromosomes become progressively more compact through a combination of ...

Different types of cell division failure shape whether duplicated cells survive, remain stable, or lead to cancer.

A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers has found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they ...

Microtubules, the dynamic filaments that form the cell's internal scaffolding, have long been viewed as mere passive structural supports. But a new study reveals they play a far more active signaling ...

A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they have ...

A hallmark of cancerous cells is an abnormal number of chromosomes or chromosome arms, known as aneuploidy. While aneuploidy is detrimental to regular cells, it occurs in as many as 90% of tumors. How ...

Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that if animal cells gain an extra set of chromosomes, a condition known as polyploidy, they activate a stress signaling pathway ...

"This is important because even cells from the same part of the body can have chromosomes folded in very different ways," Wang, a graduate student and lead author of the study, said. "That folding ...

Cancer cells that accumulate extra copies of their entire chromosome set can start behaving like immune cells, swallowing their neighbors and migrating through tissue to seed tumors in distant organs.