This bacterium contains a wide variety of strains and biotypes, receiving and transferring genes ... chromosome. Probability values for this analysis are based on the assumption that the DNA ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

Two proteins, TRF2 and RAP1, work together to block a repair process that would otherwise treat the natural ends of chromosomes as broken DNA and try ... They removed the genes for RAP1 and ...

Research over the past few years has focused on two molecular mechanisms that mediate epigenetic phenomena: DNA ... chromosome inactivation (X inactivation) and genomic imprinting is monoallelic ...

Integration of DNA Copy Number Variation and Gene Expression Data Genome-wide expression profiles ... The most frequent gains were from chromosome arms 8q (69%), 17q (67%), and 7p (52%), and the most ...

Centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died far from his Tuscany homeland, pieces of his life — his sketches, his scribbles, his ...

Genetic medicine reaches a major milestone with a system capable of inserting entire genes into human DNA. This breakthrough ...

Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million ...

A new study provides new insight into height differences between adult men and women, demonstrating that Y chromosome genes contribute more to height than their X chromosome counterparts.

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...

The treatment of leukemia among children could be made more precise with fewer side effects with the help of more accurate ...

(Barbara Ortutay / AP) Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe has agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million people, to the drug developer Regeneron ...