It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

"Our phone conversation sounded like a price negotiation in the final hour of a flea market as I bargained for my old ...

But some plants have taken a different approach. They have evolved sex chromosomes, the bits of DNA that make individual plants either male or female. In that club are organisms like the ginkgo ...

Interestingly, sample DM17A2250 was found to have a karyotype of 46, XX, t(3;9) (p13;p13), whose coordinates are chr3:90,490,057-90,504,855 and chr9:44, 225,822, respectively. The breakpoint on ...

Chromosome abnormality is the condition in a cell or organism where the number of chromosomes or the structure of any chromosome differs from the normal karyotype. When the variant genotype is not ...

Researchers' initial understanding of meiosis was based upon careful observations of chromosome behavior using light microscopes. Then, in the 1950s, electron microscopy provided scientists with a ...

HeLa cells are unique in many ways. The normal human cells contain 46 chromosomes, while HeLa cells have been shown to contain between 75-82 chromosomes, and cells vary considerably between ...

The decision by President Donald Trump to exclude transgender girls and women from female sports has triggered what is likely ...

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Dr. Karen Zaghiyan, a board certified colorectal surgeon, believes the rise in cases may be linked to our diets. In a recent ...