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Abstract: Noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) has become a routine screening method to detect autosomal chromosomal aberrations. Predicting sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs) is more difficult due to the ...

A team of Kansas City scientists has published what the industry is calling a "landmark" study that offers new insight into fertility, miscarriages and Down syndrome.According to a release from the ...

Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person in the world when she died. Scientists analysed her genes, metabolism and more. “We wanted to learn from her particular case to benefit other people,” says ...

A mixture of DNA and proteins—known as "chromatin"—sits inside every cell nucleus as a jumbled puddle of genetic information. As cells prepare to divide during mitosis, the chromatin is condensed into ...

Texas has executed four people so far this year – a low number, considering the state often executed that many per month during the 1990s and 2000s. No executions were scheduled at all this summer and ...