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

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

In genome sequencing, “complete” usually means “almost complete.” For example, genomes that we usually call complete usually omit repetitive DNA segments, which are usually scanned in short, ...

A University of Warwick physicist has uncovered how female cells are able to choose randomly between their two X chromosomes and why that choice is always lucky. Human males have both a X and a Y ...