Chromosomes, the fundamental units of heredity, are complex structures composed of DNA and proteins. Each chromosome carries a multitude of genes, the blueprints for building and maintaining an ...

Here’s a quick reality check: ice cream sales go up in summer, and so do drownings. But no one thinks Ben & Jerry's is a silent killer. It’s correlation, not causation. Yet this same logical ...

Genes are segments of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) that are located inside every human cell. The DNA inside each cell is tightly coiled in structures called chromosomes. Each chromosome contains a ...

I am trying to plot three homologous chromosomes from related species and I found that chromosome label is too close to the actual chromosome. The instructions mention that I can play with labels, ...

Sex is determined in a variety of different ways throughout the animal kingdom. In mammals, it is determined genetically, not by temperature, as it can be in reptiles. Typically, females have two X ...

“We’ve known that tiny fragments of ancient DNA can survive for long periods of time,” said Dr. Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen and ...

The Y chromosome in primates — including humans — is evolving much more rapidly than the X chromosome, new research on six primate species suggests. For instance, humans and chimpanzees share upwards ...

The molecules that silence a woman’s second X chromosome can confuse the immune system, a new study suggests. By Carl Zimmer Women are much more likely than men to have their immune system turn ...

In conumee, it adds it to the middle of the centromere, which makes it easier to see whole arm changes. The genomeInfo seems to have general gap regions of the genome, but doesn't have them explicitly ...