Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

University of Arizona Cancer Center researchers will study the potential effects of the loss of the Y chromosome in the ...

Most don’t learn they carry this genetic anomaly unless they experience reproductive problems and seek testing. On Wednesday ...

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

A new study has found that the X chromosome, of which one copy is typically inactivated in XX female cells, can also be inactivated in some male cancers. The study is published in Cell Systems. The X ...

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by ...

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