Two separate groups of biologists reported fusing entire sets of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes together, and ...

Researchers used CRISPR to change the number of chromosomes in Arabidopsis by fusing chromosome arms, reducing the genome from ten to eight chromosomes. The plants grew normally but showed reduced ...

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

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is ...

A collaborative effort by the Formosa-Jordan lab from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, ...

They found that in women ages 20 to 32, about 1 in 5 eggs carried a chromosome error. But after 32, that number started ...

Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown is making headlines for the second time this season (following his painted hairline fiasco) after he made an off-color ...

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