Chromosomes continuously develop their shape during cell divisions. Mitotic chromosomes gradually shorten and thicken. Longer ...

When scientists want to trace how a species has changed over time—and predict its prospects for survival—they turn to DNA.

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...

Background Molecular genetic diagnoses are critical to prevention and treatment of inherited polyposis and colorectal cancer.

Recent groundbreaking research into ape genomes has uncovered mysterious non-human DNA structures that challenge our ...

CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in ...