India, March 17 -- Selfish chromosomes bias genetic inheritance by manipulating the overdrive (Ovd) gene, a natural sperm ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery—how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance. The researchers found that ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Vital Longevity (CVL) and Columbia University's Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute ...

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance.

Adele L. Marston is in the Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK. Centromeres vary widely in size and DNA sequence, ranging from ...

How have the rich and powerful convinced so many voters that the reason they are struggling is the poor and powerless? The American historian talks about the weaponising of divisiveness ...

Drug-resistant epilepsy affects millions worldwide, with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) as one of the leading causes. Yet its ...

Gene and cell therapy is moving fast – and in a clear direction. Programs are pushing toward more complex payloads, virus-free engineering, and manufacturing models that can scale from early research ...

Biologists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the protein NuSAP safeguards tiny structures inside cells called centrioles, revealing a mechanism linked to developmental ...