Chromosomes are masters of organization. These long strings of DNA fold down into an ensemble of compact structures that keep needed parts of the genome accessible while tucking away those that aren't ...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens magnified 15,000 times in an image captured earlier this year with a scanning electron microscope at Iowa State University's Roy J. Carver High Resolution Microscopy Facility ...

For more than a decade, scientists have been aware of chromothripsis — the process in which a single chromosome breaks into pieces and is rearranged in random order, enabling cancer cells to evolve ...

In a major leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can predict the 3D shape of ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled ...

The Y chromosome is inherited only through the paternal line. Sons receive their Y chromosome exclusively from their father.

PacBio launched CiFi, a method combining 3C and HiFi long-read sequencing to generate chromosome scale, haplotype resolved genome assemblies in one run.

Scientists achieved a genetic breakthrough by removing an extra human chromosome using gene-editing technology. This landmark study successfully deleted the surplus chromosome 21 responsible for Down ...