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

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During ...

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During mitosis, centromeres ...

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

Women age differently from men when it comes to health—particularly in conditions like cardiovascular disease and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...