The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

Discover the pivotal role of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer biology and its implications for future treatments.

Chromosome abnormality is the condition in a cell or organism where the number of chromosomes or the structure of any chromosome ... Using single-cell DNA sequencing we show that most healthy ...

In most animal, plant and fungal cells DNA is stored in the nucleus coiled up in thread-like structures called chromosomes. The nucleus of one of your skin cells contains about two metres of DNA ...

Next, the researchers used long DNA reads and assembled the rye B chromosome into a single ~430 Mb-long ... Andreas Houben, head of IPK’s research group “Chromosome Structure and Function.” ...

The Homo sapiens genome today contains a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. These genetic traces come from almost every part of the Neanderthal genome—except the Y sex chromosome, which is ...

“Because of its complex structure, the Y chromosome is much harder to sequence ... As technology has improved, computers have ...

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“Because of its complex structure, the Y chromosome ... made it easier to process these sections of DNA, which has dramatically changed Y chromosome research. “We were able to screen a ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are helping uncover new information ...