In the lymphocytes of a girl with microcephalia, hypertelorism, antimongoloid palpebral slant, bilateral cataract, severe dental caries, systolic murmur, back-rotation of kidneys and severe ...

Geneticists from Ohio, California and Japan joined forces in a quest to correct a faulty chromosome through cellular reprogramming. Their study, published online today in Nature, used stem cells to ...

As an MD-PhD student at Case Western Reserve in the late 1980s, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris watched with fascination as researchers prepared for a journey into uncharted territory. The international Human ...

Japanese researchers identified chromosome aberrations as a new biomarker in predicting an esophageal cancer patient's risk of experiencing severe chemoradiotherapy side effects. Chemoradiotherapy is ...

Chromosomes are thread-like structures comprising DNA that are present inside the nucleus of every cell in the body. Specific segments of DNA are called genes. Every chromosome contains many genes, ...

An appraisal. Basic tenets of cytogenetics -- The architecture of the chromosome. Viral chromosomes ; The chromosomes of protocells ; Episomes ; The chromosomes of eucells ; Euchromatin and ...