Many of us are familiar with typical diagrams of a chromosome, which is sometimes depicted like a stubby X. While that picture may resemble what is seen after some chromosome staining methods, in the ...

In human cells, lengthy strands of DNA have to be carefully organized and compacted so they'll fit into the nucleus; our genome is arranged into chromosomes that have to be duplicated each time a cell ...

Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have made a foundational discovery about chromosome biology through their work on the first-ever human pangenome reference. Published ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

At a seminar hosted by the physics department, a Georgetown graduate spoke to students and faculty about how chromosomes assume their characteristic “X” shape during cell division. The Jan. 31 talk, ...

Scientists in Australia have made some intriguing discoveries in the genomes of a wide range of animals. What was initially mistaken for dust on the slides turned out to be tiny “microchromosomes” ...

Researchers have identified the exact DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse to form Robertsonian chromosomes, a phenomenon known for over a century but never explained. Using long-read sequencing, ...