A physically consistent and realistic structural model for DNA organization in chromosomes must be compatible with all the ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

A team of biologists, environmental scientists and geneticists affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. has ...

Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition in which a boy is born with an extra X chromosome. Instead of the typical XY chromosomes in men, they have XXY, so this condition is also called XXY ...

Being intersex means that a person is born with variations in their sex traits and/or reproductive organs, such as their ...

Increased risk for autism appears to be linked to the Y chromosome, a study has found, offering a new explanation for the greater prevalence of autism in males. Increased risk for autism appears ...

Common plastic chemical benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) causes DNA damage, resulting in cell death and abnormal chromosome ...

They also altered the length of the telomeres on the ends of each chromosome to improve the cells' longevity ... The cells ...

elegans is an effective model for studying the impacts in people ... with compromised genomic integrity and errors in meiotic chromosome segregation." ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba developed a novel imaging method for visualizing lesions in the glomerular basement membrane using a mouse model of Alport syndrome, a hereditary kidney disease.

The Y chromosome has lost nearly 900 active genes over 166 million years, leaving just 55. Scientists estimate that the remaining genes could disappear in about 11 million years. Platypus Model ...

elegans is an effective model for studying the impacts on people ... with compromised genomic integrity and errors in meiotic chromosome segregation." More information: Henderson AL, Karthikraj ...