Dr Tatini Rakshit, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, highlights how innovative approaches like chromosome analysis and AFM could signific ...

Can Animals Have Mental Disabilities? Mental health issues aren’t exclusive to humans—animals can experience them too. From cognitive decline resembling dementia to anxiety and trauma-related ...

The flowerpot snake, one of the world's smallest snakes, has some unusual distinctions. Also known as the Brahminy blind ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

On March 21, The Wave on Whitehaven Harbour was lit up in support of World Down Syndrome Day. Members of the public were also encouraged to wear odd socks as a talking point to raise awareness of the ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

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 ...

How an Extra Chromosome Affects Brain Development Dr Khanna says that Down syndrome results in brain structure changes along with functional alterations because of the extra chromosome 21. Research ...

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through interbreeding about 300,000 years ago. The genetic mixture is approximately ...