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

However, these are not the only ways that bacteria can respond under stress. Bacteria can change the order of genes on their chromosome (the chromosome structure) and/or the three-dimensional ...

Now, researchers from Cornell University have uncovered mechanisms by which these mobile genetic elements integrate into the chromosomes of bacteria ... the structure and maintenance of these ...

Over 24 months, they determined that the female patients who had received the FMT from male donors had something more than bacteria in their samples. They saw that Y chromosomes were present in 33 ...

Considering that the chromosome is a massively compact structure, the general organization of the bacterial nucleoid adds an extra level to cell cycle coordination. In particular, a compromise has to ...

A new technique to clone and reassemble DNA, dubbed CReATiNG, could simplify and lower the cost to make synthetic chromosomes ... such as yeast and bacteria, to better understand how they work ...

The structure of the Y chromosome has been challenging to decode because some ... An unexpected finding from this paper was that Y chromosome DNA has been repeatedly mistaken to be bacterial DNA in ...

The structure of the Y chromosome has been challenging to decode because some ... such as the lack of sperm production which leads to infertility. Contamination in bacterial genomes An unexpected ...

Another challenge was the palindromic sequences that may extend up to millions of base pairs and have the same structure when ... that may have the chromosome, bacteria, and other microorganisms.

But this chromosome had proven difficult to crack owing to its exceptionally complex structure ... had been mistaken in previous studies as bacterial in nature. Fully sequencing the Y chromosome ...