An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped ...

For chromosomes to form the iconic X-shape that ensures the accurate passing of genetic information during cell division, a ...

The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the movements ... Hagstrom & Meyer, 2003). Like cohesin, condensin is an elongated complex of several proteins that binds and ...

Our laboratory is interested in how human cells accurately duplicate and transmit their chromosomes during each round of division. Accurate chromosome transmission is vital ... we used similar ...