Mitotic cell division in unicellular organisms such as bacteria or yeast produces identical sister cells that are also identical to the mother cell. But in multicellular plants, sister cells are different from each other and usually also from the...

Eukaryotic genetics encompasses the study of heredity in multicellular and unicellular organisms the have a true nucleus with a defined nuclear membrane. Accordingly, eukaryotic genetics excludes the study of prokaryotes (e.g., bacteria). The cells of...

The study of the molecular processes underlying gene structure and...

Molecular genetics is the field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level. The field studies how the genes are transferred from generation to generation. Molecular genetics employs the methods of genetics and...

Researchers at the University of Florida and The Jackson Laboratory in Maine say they used gene therapy to restore sight in mice with achromatopsia, a form of hereditary blindness that also strikes humans.In a paper published online in Tuesday's edition of Nature Medicine, the Florida...

Scientists have the first evidence that those "reprogrammed stem cells" that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease: They used skin from the tails of sick mice to cure the rodents of sickle cell anemia.At issue: Turning adult cells into ones...

Scientists have the first evidence that those "reprogrammed stem cells" that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease: They used skin from the tails of sick mice to cure the rodents of sickle cell anemia.At issue: Turning adult cells into ones...

   Antimicrobials have transformed our ability to treat many infectious diseases that were fatal only a few decades ago. The increasing use of antibiotics in humans, animals, and agriculture has resulted in many germs developing resistance to these powerful drugs. All major groups of pathogens...