A 2-year-old girl has a unique chromosome duplication that makes her rare, seizure-causing condition unlike any other ...

Cell division is one of the most fundamental and complex processes underpinning life. In human cells, thousands of molecules ...

New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously ...

Researchers are gaining a new appreciation for the genes on the X and Y chromosomes and how they shape sex differences in ...

This study introduces TEAM (Targeted Elimination and Microcell-Mediated Transfer), a novel programmable platform that enables ...

A research team led by geneticist Jeannie Lee at Harvard Medical School, cell biologist Jeanne Lawrence at UMass Chan Medical School, and molecular biologist Jun Jiang has used a refined version of ...

The oldest-known sex chromosome emerged in octopus and squid between 455 million and 248 million years ago — 180 million years earlier than the previous record-holder, scientists have discovered. The ...

Conventional investigations of the genetic contributors to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk and progression have ignored the role of the X-chromosome, primarily due to technical analysis limitations. To ...

The Atlas blue butterfly is quietly turning into one of the most surprising discoveries in modern biology. It is not famous ...