Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and Linköping University in Sweden have discovered how cells prevent ...

The Y chromosome can disappear over time in human males, which may introduce a number of health problems. While the exact ...

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want ...

Medulloblastomas, brain tumors in children, are thought to develop between the first trimester of pregnancy and the end of the first year of life. Researchers have now analyzed the genetic changes of ...

Medulloblastoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in children and adolescents.

Before cells divide, they replicate the double-stranded DNA of each chromosome. The replication ... the loss of fill-in synthesis activity is the only reason for the telomere abnormalities ...

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

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identical halves of the chromosome created when DNA is copied in preparation for cell division during mitosis. The chromatids, joined at the centromere, are several centimeters long, but compacted by ...

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.