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

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

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

"Only these features allowed us to recapitulate the native structure of mitotic chromosomes in our model and understand how they can be segregated during cell division." In the future, the ...

Researchers have discovered how telomeres (the protective caps at the end of chromosomes) help prevent abnormal genetic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An advanced genomic analysis of a multigenerational family is providing new knowledge about genetic mutations and their ...