Japanese researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to remove the extra chromosome 21 from cells in a lab. It’s a real breakthrough — but ...

For decades, technical limitations and entrenched expectations shaped chromosome counts, illustrating how accepted scientific ideas can persist despite conflicting evidence.

Loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells is common enough that roughly 40 percent of men around age 70 show it, and a review ...

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WDHN) — Enterprise has proclaimed October 2026 as Down Syndrome Awareness Month, recognizing the ...

A new case report describes a fatal infant case of 19p13.3 microdeletion syndrome featuring severe cardiomegaly, ...

A tumor suppressor gene known as p53 is mutated in more than half of all cancers, but how it acts to prevent cancer formation ...

A Norwegian family study reveals that muscle wasting in NHP2-related dyskeratosis congenita is driven by neurogenic ...

A new study found that cancer cells selectively chip away gene-rich sections of the Y chromosome, triggering changes that ...

A multi-omics study has mapped key genetic controls behind verbascoside accumulation in olive fruit, offering a clearer route from a complex metabolic trait to practical breeding targets. Verbascoside ...

A new study reveals that the loss of the Y chromosome in men’s body tissue could pave the way for cancer to develop in that ...

The near-neutral model of B chromosome evolution predicts that population invasion is quite fast. To test this prediction, in 1994, we introduced males of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans from a ...

When I look at my ginger cat Char, I wonder how his orange fur comes to be.Many people have heard that "most ginger cats are ...