Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with ...

Developing elite fruit cultivars typically requires long breeding cycles, especially in perennial woody species. This study ...

Sex determination at birth is decided on the chromosomes the baby has. A female has two X chromosomes, whereas a male has one X and one Y chromosome. According to Medline Plus, in every cell, humans ...

Each human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes that carry DNA within their nucleus. The X and Y chromosomes, commonly referred to as the sex chromosomes, are one such pair. They determine the ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective ...

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A hallmark of cancerous cells is an abnormal number of chromosomes or chromosome arms, known as aneuploidy. While aneuploidy ...

Scientists have decoded the Y chromosome in full for the first time. In a new article published Aug. 23 in Nature, scientists with the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium—a group of researchers ...

Doctors discovered a woman had "blood chimerism" after examining the chromosomes of cells from different parts of her body.