In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

Sam Silverman, a 23-year-old man who is autistic and has two chromosome disorders, hires support staffers to help him every ...

(The Guardian) In a surprise finding, the silent X chromosome in female mice awakened late in life ... (npj Parkinson's ...

We previously reported suggestive linkage between type 2 diabetes and markers in a region on chromosome 20q using data from a collection of 29 Caucasian families in which type 2 diabetes with ...

Two-year-old Charlotte is one of very few children worldwide to be diagnosed with the incredibly rare disease, Ring 14 Chromosome Syndrome. CharlieFest 2 will feature the bands Mumblefinger, Stoning ...

Researchers at the Arc Institute, Stanford University, and NVIDIA have developed Evo 2, an advanced AI model capable of ...

Figure 2 shows an example of a spectral karyotype ... to generate a false-color image (Figure 2b) that depicts each chromosome in a distinctive color. The chromosomes were then arranged into ...

Researchers may have discovered how the female brain remains resilient in aging, answering the age-old question of how most women outlive men and retain their cognitive abilities longer.

Olivia Farnsworth from Huddersfield has a rare genetic disorder, chromosome 6p deletion, which makes her immune to pain, ...

Jerome Lejeune in France and Patricia Jacobs in the United States were able to identify a supernumerary copy of chromosome 21 in karyotypes prepared from DS patients (Figure 2). Trisomy 21 is now ...

The McCurdy family has welcomed a new member to their family: a shelter dog named Clifford who has eyes only for their ...

HIV-1 Vif induces a unique and prolonged pseudo-metaphase arrest by disrupting phosphatase feedback regulation at the kinetochore.