When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.

In about one out of every 800 people, two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. These are known as Robertsonian ...

Kansas City scientists have made a "landmark" discovery that offers new insights into some cases of infertility, miscarriage ...

Researchers are now exploring how different types of repetitive DNA create genome instability and structurally variant chromosomes.

In a recent study, researchers sequenced Robertsonian chromosomes completely, telomere to telomere, for the first time. 1 They discovered a common DNA breakpoint that leads to the formation of ...

AMES, Iowa – A new study led by an Iowa State University scientist sheds light on how organisms have evolved to address imbalances in sex chromosomes. The study looks at a species of softshell turtle, ...

A karyotype of the complete set of human chromosomes. Credit: National Human Genome Research Institute Human sex chromosomes originated from a pair of autosomes, the ordinary or non-sex chromosomes ...

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago ...

Cancer cells with extra chromosomes depend on those chromosomes for tumor growth, a new Yale study reveals, and eliminating them prevents the cells from forming tumors. The findings, said the ...