Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply—and can contribute to ...

"Our work is the first to directly test how chromosome structure affects bacterial growth, survival, and ability to cause disease, and it opens the door for similar studies in many other microbes," ...

Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

Motor proteins are tiny "machines" inside cells that use chemical energy to move along molecular tracks and carry out ...

A microscopic piece of genetic material known as the Y chromosome made headlines last week. It is nothing new or rare; every man has one in practically every cell, or he would not be a man. But a few ...