PATIENTS with the clinical syndrome of mongolism have been shown to have 47 chromosomes instead of the 46 that are present in the normal human karyotype. 1–3 The additional chromosome, a member of the ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...

Scientists revealed only yesterday that they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilised them with sperm in the lab ...

It is important to remember that genetics is only one factor in IVF success. Uterine health, hormone balance, and sperm ...

The mass of human chromosomes, which contain the instructions for life in nearly every cell of our bodies, has been measured with X-rays for the first time in a new study led by UCL researchers. Mass ...

A study found that daily vitamin D supplements helped slow telomere shortening—the cellular process linked to aging and ...

Scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute have solved the puzzle of how small chromosomes ensure that they aren’t skipped over during meiosis, the process that makes sperm and egg. From avocado ...