When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.

In a recent study, researchers sequenced Robertsonian chromosomes completely, telomere to telomere, for the first time. 1 They discovered a common DNA breakpoint that leads to the formation of ...

Every new life begins after a genetic shuffle. When organisms make eggs or sperm, maternal and paternal chromosomes pair up ...

During cell division, chromosomes are duplicated and separated so that one copy of each chromosome is inherited by each of the two emerging daughter cells. Correct distribution of chromosomes requires ...

This valuable study analyzes aging-related chromatin changes through the lens of intra-chromosomal gene correlation length, which is a novel computational metric that captures spatial correlations in ...

By Michelle Yang Researchers from Mie University in Japan used the gene editing tool CRISPR to remove the extra chromosome 21, the copy responsible for Down syndrome. Courtesy of digitale.de via ...

A microscopic piece of genetic material known as the Y chromosome made headlines last week. It is nothing new or rare; every man has one in practically every cell, or he would not be a man. But a few ...