Chromosomes are cellular structures that contain the genetic material. A chromosome is comprised of a single DNA molecule that may be either circular or linear. The full complement of a cell s ...

Quantification and characterization of these multiple HML-2 insertions in the human chromosome has been challenging due to their size, sequence homology with each other, and their repetitive nature.

Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X chromosome is needed—so the other is randomly inactivated. Some cells use only ...

Summary: New research shows that female mice expressing only a maternal X chromosome experience faster brain aging and cognitive decline compared to those expressing both maternal and paternal X ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The completion of the final synthetic chromosome in the yeast genome marks a significant advancement in synthetic biology. This achievement enables the creation ...

2008, 2012). One important class of mutation mediating adaptive evolution are copy number variants (CNVs) which comprise duplications or deletions of genomic sequences that range in size from gene ...