Catching giraffes to move them safely from one reserve to another is no easy task, says conservationist Dereck Milburn. “It’s taken a lot of people collaborating to make this project possible,” he ...

When we think of parasites, we picture ticks or worms. But lurking inside our own genomes are far stealthier hitchhikers: jumping fragments of human DNA that behave like genetic parasites and can ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) — Researchers at a lab in Kansas City believe they have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding infertility. Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

Dustin Vidrine's sight is disappearing — shrinking, really. He has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited eye disease that runs in his family. By the time he was in his 20s, he noticed that his ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have identified, for the first time, the precise fusion point of a chromosome variant that scientists say may ...

Herein, we investigate the genomic landscape of 632 TASs, spanning the most common histotypes: Ewing sarcoma (ES, n = 196), desmoplastic small round cell sarcoma (DSRCT, n = 115), solitary fibrous ...

When couples have trouble conceiving a baby or lose a pregnancy, they often undergo routine tests, which can turn up a shock: One of the prospective parents may be missing a chromosome. The most ...

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance ruled Tuesday that precluding a genetic mother from the parentage of a child born as a result of reciprocal in-vitro fertilization (RIVF) is unconstitutional.

Translocations are chromosomal “cut and paste” errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most common form of cancer overall. This includes mantle cell lymphoma, a rare but ...

Translocations are chromosomal “cut and paste” errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most common form of cancer overall. This includes mantle cell lymphoma, a rare but ...