Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, is caused by the presence of a third copy of the 21st chromosome. Affected individuals have ...

Gene editing techniques may eventually allow trisomy to be treated at the cellular level, according to an in vitro ...

Gene editing techniques may one day allow for the removal of the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome, early ...

Decades ago, researchers showed that Down syndrome (also known as trisomy 21), was caused when individuals carried an extra ...

A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order oversimplifies genetics, hormones and reproductive biology.

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In the first instalment of a series to mark the 10th anniversary of the Future Science Prize, Holly Chik and Shen Xinmei look ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

Zhang and his colleagues designed a generative AI model called ChromoGen to quickly ‘read’ DNA sequences and predict the ...

The parasite that causes malaria requires precise control of gene expression to progress through the various stages of its ...

Agans is doing cutting-edge research in experimental genetics as a lab assistant and honors student in Jack Bateman’s lab.