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.

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

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

By Michelle Yang Researchers from Mie University in Japan used the gene editing tool CRISPR to remove the extra chromosome 21, the copy responsible for Down syndrome. Courtesy of digitale.de via ...

An unassuming butterfly called the Atlas blue has been confirmed to have the greatest known number of chromosome pairs of any ...

Heat and cold reshape fertility in reptiles, from scrambled sperm to sex reversal, with lessons for evolution under climate ...

Since 1994, UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla has helped put on a fundraising event to support cancer research.

Recently, the research team led by Prof. Junjiu Huang from Sun Yat-sen University, in collaboration with Prof. Fenghua Liu’s team at Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, published a study titled ...

Space is the ultimate stress test for the human body,” Catriona Jamieson, director of UC San Diego’s Sanford Stem Cell Institute, said. That stress, as new research reveals, imparts a molecular ...