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

Slides containing chromosomes were treated with 70% formamide (in 2xSSC), pH 7, at 70 °C for 2 min and then dehydrated in an increasing ethanol series. Bt1 probe from Bos taurus DNA and Om1 probe from ...

Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers.

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.

A new study proves that a type of genetic element called 'introners' are the mechanism by which many introns spread within and between species, also providing evidence of eight instances in which ...

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

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

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 ...

The model can be told to create synthetic fragments of DNA with custom criteria, for example, "switch this gene on in stem cells which will turn into red-blood-cells but not platelets." ...

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 ...

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 ...