While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down syndrome — some people don’t believe it. “At the ...

2 The figure of two thirds could imply that Gilgamesh was either a genetic chimera or mosaic. Although the ancients Mesopotamians were aware of the concept of chimeras and regularly used them in ...

Medically reviewed by Brigid Dwyer, MD Mosaic Down syndrome is a variant of Down syndrome. Down syndrome is a congenital ...

Traditionally, genetic mosaic animals were generated via spontaneous or X-ray-induced mitotic recombination, resulting in progeny homozygous mutant for a candidate gene of interest in the ...

Mosaic variegated aneuploidy syndrome (MVAS) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by mosaic aneuploidy. Its clinical manifestations include growth and developmental delay, congenital ...

Researchers have long recognized this possibility, but a paper published today (July 31) in The American Journal of Human Genetics attempts to better quantify the phenomenon of mosaicism. The authors ...

DNA is a mosaic of genetic fragments passed down through generations, but its clarity diminishes over time. While modern testing can trace ancestry through shared markers, the depth of this insight ...

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in ...

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin ...

Scientists have long speculated that mosaicism – a biological phenomenon in which cells within the same person have a different genetic makeup – plays a bigger role in the transmission of rare disease ...