Researchers have identified the exact DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse to form Robertsonian chromosomes, a ...

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

This interesting study adapts machine learning tools to analyze movements of a chromatin locus in living cells in response to serum starvation. The machine learning approach developed is useful, the ...

University of Arizona Cancer Center researchers will study the potential effects of the loss of the Y chromosome in the ...

The tiny Atlas blue butterfly, also known as Polyommatus atlantica, has been genetically confirmed as having the highest number of chromosomes out of all multicellular animals in the world.It ...

Among mammals, females generally live longer. The recent comparative study examined 528 mammal species in zoos and found that ...

A condition known as Robertsonian translocation occurs when the long arms of two chromosomes join together. The characterization of the fully sequenced and assembled fused chromosomes reveals a common ...

Scientists are working to create human eggs in a laboratory dish, but the process is proving to be more challenging than ...

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its ...

A new study is offering an explanation as to why women tend to live longer than men. Published in the Science Advances ...