Browsing: Genome

Credit: vchal/ Getty Images Pregnancy loss may occur in as many as 25 percent of all pregnancies, mostly during the…

Credit: Rost-9D/Getty Images Separate studies led by scientists at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DMHC) and Queens University offer some clarity…

3D genome mapping reveals how noncoding DNA elements, such as enhancers, interact with distant genes to regulate expression.Image credit:©iStock, Perkasa RambeDrug…

Before cells can divide by mitosis, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the…

Credit: Science Photo Library – ROGER HARRIS/Getty Images Offering whole genome sequencing (WGS) to women with breast cancer could open…

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in…

Robertsonian chromosomes (ROB) are a type of structurally variant chromosome that is created when two chromosomes fuse together to form…

In a new study published in Nature Communications titled, “The reference genome of the human diploid cell line RPE-1,” researchers…

Scientist fully mapped centromeres in a diploid human cell line for the first time. Their work will help reveal maternal…

Scientists recently sequenced the genome of the Atlas blue butterfly for the first time. They discovered 227 pairs of small…