Maternal genetics have an outsized role to play, as they shape body's response to stress, ability to fight with infections ...

Nearly two decades ago, Australian evolutionary biologist Professor Jenny Graves sparked one of the most persistent genetic ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Scientists who built the first synthetic eukaryotic genome share hard-won lessons that could accelerate engineering of crops, ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

Cell division is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information. Each chromosome within a plant contains a ...

A hallmark of cancerous cells is an abnormal number of chromosomes or chromosome arms, known as aneuploidy.

Scientists have finally uncovered the exact DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse to form Robertsonian chromosomes, a mystery that has puzzled researchers for over a century. Using advanced genome ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Robertsonian chromosomes are associated with infertility and Down syndrome, now cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology ...