The nucleus of each human body cell contains 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome contains about 1000 genes. There is enough DNA in all the cells in a human body to stretch to the sun and back again ...

The Homo sapiens genome today contains a little ... contains versions of several of the same genes that are found in the modern human Y chromosome. In modern humans, a Y chromosome gene called ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...

A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...

Human biological ... PLOS Genetics said the chromosome's evolution of palindromes — DNA sequences that read the same forward as backward — and repetitive copies of genes could keep it from ...

Using genome-editing ... [Gorodenkoff/Getty Images] The research team used specialized gene editing tools to identify and fix problems in the synthetic chromosome affecting how well the yeast ...

To turn genes off and on, cells use Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes ... than the width of a human hair." "Once we understand how SMC molecular motors shape DNA, we may start asking what ...