A gene on the X chromosome revs up inflammation in the female brain, which may explain why rates of multiple sclerosis are ...

She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The 23 rd chromosome base pair contains what are known as our sex chromosomes. For most females, this ...

Scientists have decoded the Y chromosome in full for the first time. In a new article published Aug. 23 in Nature, scientists with the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium—a group of researchers ...

This insightful review explores key areas of cancer genetic research, focusing on genes that may benefit from ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental condition that can be diagnosed at any age, although the symptoms tend to appear in the first two years of a patient's life. ASD can ...

New research by an Iowa State University team found the effectiveness of Agrobacterium's virulence also varies, depending on how its chromosome is arranged. The study published this month in Science ...

Iowa State University researchers have unlocked new secrets within the bacteria responsible for the creation of thousands of ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...