Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

Related: Faster brain aging tied to X chromosome inherited from Mom In menopause, estrogen levels plummet. The hormone has many functions in the brain, including helping shuttle fuel from the blood ...

The X chromosome is larger and commands more regulatory functions throughout the brain and body. While diseases such as color-blindness and hemophilia have long been understood to be X-linked ...

This localization suggests a direct connection between X chromosome gene expression and cognitive function in aging females. These findings indicate that aging itself may trigger the awakening of ...

Thus, in her experiments, McClintock observed several fundamental properties of chromosome biology ... McClintock's early predictions about telomere function. Telomere Biology Is an Active ...

the function of all eukaryotic centromeres has been strongly conserved during evolution. This article focuses on the centromeres of mammalian chromosomes, particularly those in humans. Much of ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

It also contains telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), which uses TERC to synthesize and add telomeric DNA repeats to the ends of the chromosomes. In contrast to human somatic cells that are ...

As it turns out, the chromosome also has important functions beyond determining sex. According to a study published July 14 in Science, a lack of the Y chromosome in bone marrow cells causes heart ...

"The X and Y chromosomes have traditionally been viewed primarily as determinants of biological sex, but they're much more than that. They contain genes that affect how cells function in ways we ...

Utrecht University has appointed Bas van Steensel as Special Professor of Chromosome Biology. Van Steensel will lead fundamental research into how chromosomes function and how genetic information is ...