He is active in films. He is active on social media. He writes often. But for the last 21 days, he has been showing his ...

Animals that rely exclusively on parthenogenesis to reproduce, like the flowerpot snake, are called obligate parthenogens, ...

A "Jeopardy!" show recently asked what animal had the most chromosomes. This month's River Life column tells us more about answer: the hermit crab.

It includes the study of chromosome number and appearance (karyotyping), the physical location of genes on chromosomes, and chromosomal behaviour in processes such as cell division.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard revealed that her daughter, Aurora, tested negative for 1q21.1 microdeletion, which is a genetic condition that she has. In light of the announcement, many people are wondering ...

Before cells divide, they replicate the double-stranded DNA of each chromosome. The replication machinery does a good job of copying the nucleotide sequences until it gets to the telomeres ...

Relax your anal sphincter and breath deeply. What will the ER do for impacted stool? If you are unable to release stool on your own, doctors in the emergency room can do a few things to help.

The problem with quantum mechanics, or at least the reason even physicists don’t understand it, isn’t that it paints an unfamiliar picture of reality. It isn’t difficult to accept that the ...

An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped chromosomes ...