Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring amino—the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

Researchers observe how fluctuations in ovarian hormones shape the structure and function in the mouse hippocampus, with ...

tall stature and severe acne—traits that might result from the hormone-stimulating effects of the duplicated chromosome. But little more is known about the Y chromosome’s effects. Dr. Wil liam ...

The duplication and inheritance of both the endoplasmic ... These are not necessarily mutually exclusive options. Organelle structure is controlled by regulatory modifications.

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 ...