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

Researchers provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of ...

Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) and gene therapy represent a promising frontier in genetic research and treatment. HACs are engineered structures that can carry large segments of human DNA ...

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 ...

Structural variants in the human genome ... chromosomes, are found to have no clinical consequence, whereas those that involve euchromatic regions are more likely to disrupt genes and/or ...

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

Aneuploidy is frequent in cancer, but in vitro it triggers multiple cellular stresses and often delays proliferation. Through ...

The X contains more genes related to brain function than does any other chromosome. “The X chromosome may be a treasure trove ...

Female mammals typically carry two X chromosomes ... genes themselves, she explained. This also enabled the team to pinpoint differences in epigenetics — chemical tags that attach to DNA ...

Researchers created the first bi-paternal mouse by modifying imprinting genes, advancing reproductive science but facing ...