When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things—including a crucial event that happened ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things - including a crucial event that happened ...

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

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

Open a high school biology textbook, and you'll see human chromosomes lined up two by two, like socks in a drawer ...

Robertsonians — commonly abbreviated as ROBs — are the stuff of genetics textbooks. First discovered in grasshoppers in 1916 ...

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 ...