It might look like a swimming cap, but this could be the next advance in stopping brain tumours. Here is why. Doctors at one of England’s leading cancer hospitals have launched a clinical trial ...

Chromosomal rearrangements where large chunks of chromosomes are inverted, moved, deleted or duplicated, provide a possible source for such large-scale "macromutations." However, characterizing ...

Hybrid mattresses excel at providing adequate support for your body due to their coil structure. However, some hybrid mattresses are more supportive than others, depending on their firmness level ...

The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

In patients with balanced translocations, the breakpoints themselves are likely to contain the disease associated gene, whereas in patients with segmental aneuploidy the deleted or duplicated ...

Bacteria can change the order of genes on their chromosome (the chromosome structure) and/or the three-dimensional arrangement of the chromosome (the chromosome conformation), altering gene expression ...