Industrial wastewater from oil refineries and sites polluted by oil spills usually contains complex mixtures of organic ...

Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science fiction, but scientists have actually done it-and made it work. In ...

Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and Linköping University in Sweden have discovered how cells prevent ...

To address this, we tested chromosome 4 and 9 loci for gender-specific effects in NFBC1966 (impractical in TwinsUK as males n=22). In this stratified analysis, there was no association between MC and ...

A microscopic piece of genetic material known as the Y chromosome made headlines last week. It is nothing new or rare; every man has one in practically every cell, or he would not be a man.

Mosaic Down syndrome is a variant of Down syndrome. Down syndrome is a congenital (present at birth) genetic condition that occurs when a person has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two (the ...

Cri du Chat syndrome (French for "cat cry") is a rare chromosomal disorder caused by missing or deleted portions of chromosome 5. Infants who are born with the syndrome often have a high-pitched cry ...

Many explanations have been put forward: men take more risks or smoke more, oestrogen is protective against health conditions, two X chromosomes are better than one… the list goes on.

Here, we benchmark a recently-developed RNA cloning protocol, termed Ordered Two-Template Relay (OTTR), to characterize intact tRNAs and tRNA fragments in budding yeast and in mouse tissues. We show ...

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it can also trace the footsteps of our ancestors. Humans domesticated ...

"In many animals, the development of male or female sex organs is guided by specific genetic elements known as sex chromosomes. These chromosomes are present in every cell of the body — not just ...