Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

The human genetic blueprint is deceptively simple. Our genes are tightly wound into 46 X-shaped structures called chromosomes. Crafted by evolution, they carry DNA and replicate when cells divide, ...

The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team of more than 100 researchers around the world, including ...

For the past two decades, biology textbooks have described CENP-E as a motor protein that moves along microtubules. The ...

World Down Syndrome Day: Down syndrome appears as a genetic disorder following abnormal cellular division which results in either an entire or partial additional chromosome 21. The body and brain ...

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Using a newly developed technique to remove excess chromosomes, a team led by clinical biologist Nuria Marti-Gutierrez of Oregon Health & Science University has created human eggs that can ... the ...

U of A Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Dr. Dan Theodorescu plans to study loss of Y chromosome biology and investigate ...