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

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 great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

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.

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 ...

DNA aptamers are powerful molecular tools in biosensing, bioimaging and therapeutics. However, a limited understanding of their tertiary structures and binding mechanisms hinders their further ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

This valuable work presents an interpretable protein-DNA Energy Associative (IDEA) model for predicting binding sites and affinities of DNA-binding proteins. While the method is convincing, it ...