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 ...

Chromosomes continuously develop their shape during cell divisions. Mitotic chromosomes gradually shorten and thicken. Longer ...

Scientists at the Leonardo DNA Project say they are getting closer to reconstructing the 500-year-old DNA of Leonardo da ...

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