In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

With aging, the tightly packed structure of the silent X chromosome is gradually loosened, allowing for genes to be read ...

Until now, the Y chromosome portion of the human genome has contained large gaps which made it difficult to understand variation and associated disease. The structure of the Y chromosome has been ...

a structure that is involved in ensuring that chromosomes are segregated properly when a cell divides. Mistakes in chromosome segregation can lead to cell death and cancer development. The ...

Changes to the structure of a chromosome or abnormalities in the number of chromosomes present can also cause health conditions and some of these are described below. Changes in chromosome 2 have ...

Researchers unearthed the 52,000-year-old remains in 2018 near the village of Belaya Gora in northeastern Siberia, where freezing temperatures helped preserve the structure of the chromosomes ...

In a major leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, scientists have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can predict the 3D shape of chromosomes inside individual cells ...

The Y chromosome is unusually repetitive, making it particularly difficult to sequence and assemble; it contains a complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats ...

For decades, the Y chromosome — one of the two human sex chromosomes — has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure. Now, this elusive ...