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Chromosome
Chromosomes are the microscopic threadlike part of the cell that carries hereditary information in the form of genes. A defining feature of any chromosome is its compactness. For instance, the 46 chromosomes found in human cells have a combined length of 200 nm (1 nm = 10− 9 meter); if the chromosomes were to be unraveled, the genetic material they contain would measure roughly 2 meters (about 6.5 feet) in length.
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OCT 26, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
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OCT 26, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Publishing in Cell Reports, researchers have identified a link between the molecular mechanism of Ewing’s sarcoma,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 10, 2016
Immunology
One small change in the chromosomes of B lymphocytes, and the immune cells cannot proliferate and create antibodies to f
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 06, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Recent work in the Journal of Molecular Biology has described how advances in technology and biology could produce a thr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 03, 2016
Videos
Armadillidiidae, members of the phylum Arthropoda, are commonly called pillbugs because they can roll into a tight ball.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2016
Neuroscience
With autism statistics at 1 in 68 children, the search for information on the causes and possible treatments is a
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 19, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
A specific chromosomal rearrangement in the mosquito genome seems to be responsible for a mosquito's preference for catt
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 18, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have created a new, fluorescent probe that detects a specific methyl group on histones in living cells. This
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 14, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A parthenogenote is derived from an unfertilized egg. Mammalian parthenogenotes are haploid, meaning they have only one
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 31, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have developed a genome editing technique that does not require DNA to be cleaved. Called Target-AID, the te
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2016
Immunology
When four children from Pakistani and Turkish families presented with skin rashes and inflamed joints that doctors could
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 24, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a common chemical that is extensively used in consumer products such as metal food can liners, wate
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Egg cells, or ovules in animals, remain dormant for many years after the start of reproductive age, and that is one reas
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A research team led by Christopher J. Lengner of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Brad J
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 18, 2016
Videos
Across the globe, women are outliving men, and not by a small margin either. According to the latest report by the Cente
...
AUG 09, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) have been inspired by Twitter, a social network that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 31, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have elucidated the process that acti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Dysfunction in the immune system is associated with a few mental and neurological disorders. Scientists investigating th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 26, 2016
Videos
Humans have two different types of DNA: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. The one that usually gets the majority of publici
...
JUL 19, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers working at Florida State Unive
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Over 20 years ago researcher Didier Stainier found a zebrafish mutant he named cloche, after comparing the shape of the
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 18, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Many human diseases have been linked to dysfunction in mitochondria, organelles in every cell that are responsible for g
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 12, 2016
Videos
In some species, gender is determined by genetics, one pair of chromosomes will produce a male, another pair a female. H
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 08, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
While most bacteria is harmless, some have evolved into pathogens, which have various ways of causing infectious disease
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2016
Cancer
Ovarian cancer accounts for 3% of all cancers among women and is the 5th leading cause of cancer deaths for women in the
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich