If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

New research reveals that telomere shortening varies among premature aging disorders, challenging the belief that it’s a ...

The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, which came from modern humans leaving Eurasia and mixing with Denisovans in ...

Trisomy is a genetic condition characterized by the presence of an extra chromosome. This means that the affected person has ...

Also, in the second paragraph of the section headed ‘Comparison of chromosome 21 with other autosomes’, the second sequence should read ‘For example, a 100-kb region of a contig (AP001656 ...

British universities have launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) with an initial grant of approximately $12.6 ...

In hindsight, it seems surprising that the number of human chromosomes was not determined until 1956. After all, cytologists had been studying chromosome behavior since the late nineteenth century ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have created the first chromosome-level ...

To investigate, they treated human fetal lung cells with psilocin, which is the active metabolite formed when psilocybin is ...

Psilocybin, the active compound derived from psychedelic mushrooms, significantly delayed cellular aging and extended ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) will take decades to complete and cost anything from millions to hundreds of ...