A world-first effort to build an artificial chromosome entirely from scratch in plants has received more than $12 million in ...

“Our idea is that instead of modifying an existing chromosome, we design it from the ground up,” explained Prof Harris. “We’re rethinking what plants can do for us. This synthetic chromosome could one ...

Cambridge researchers have secured £7.5 million to build "programmable plants," a revolutionary initiative poised to ...

Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge's Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have been awarded funding ...

This study shows that small cell subpopulations experience transient, high-intensity mutational bursts, greatly increasing ...

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

When cancer cells in male patients and immune cells in their tumors both lose the Y chromosome, those patients tend to ...

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 ...

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

However, this is still rather ineffective because such organisms – whether yeast or bacterial cells – use only part of their resources to produce the desired substance. The rest is spent for its own ...