Sex chromosomes are unusually labile systems, with frequent shifts between male and female heterogamety and with a large variety in the precise number and types of chromosomes. The lability is further ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study links regions of two chromosomes to susceptibility for a type of autism characterized by regression in development. CINCINNATI -- A new Cincinnati ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

New research shows that the male X chromosome is silenced in some types of cancer. Researchers evaluated how a certain gene affects the male X chromosome in cancer cells. Experts explain why these new ...

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

A quick genetics lesson is probably in order here. Every cell in a person’s body contains their genetic code, or DNA, which typically consists of 23 pairs of chromosomes — with one chromosome in each ...

Expression of the human papillomavirus type 16 E6 and E7 oncogenes initiates and maintains abnormal cell replication, by interacting with the p53 and retinoblastoma (Rb) gene products. Subsequent ...

A new study has found that the X chromosome, of which one copy is typically inactivated in XX female cells, can also be inactivated in some male cancers. The study is published in Cell Systems. The X ...