Sixteen patients are presented with a supernumerary inverted, duplicated chromosome 15 ... technique revealed a small supernumerary chromosome in 16 patients. These markers have some degree ...

How do cells manage to precisely duplicate their genetic material, especially in conditions of DNA damage? The ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

Many bird species are monogamous. However, genetic studies have shown that the social partner is often not the genetic father of all offspring. Some studies found biased sex ratios: more males than ...

In the study, investigators led by Celine Bellenguez, MD, Ph.D., at the Pasteur Institute of Lille, performed an in-depth X-chromosome-wide association study of more than 115,000 cases of ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separated and one goes to each daughter cell. But there have been whole ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

Scientists have been trying to create multicellular life from a fully human-made genome since 2006 International teams have painstakingly built 16 synthetic yeast chromosomes from scratch Sydney ...

Every organ in our body contains a small number of adult stem cells that are specific to its niche. These cells act like a ...

“Finding Your Roots,” host and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explained the two actors are distant cousins because they share a “long stretch of DNA on their 16th chromosomes,” meaning ...

The effect of saccharin on the microbiome has received much attention, but its impact on pathogenic bacterial species is less clear. This study reports the potential of saccharin to be developed as a ...