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 ...

Finding a new species is a rare event in easy-to-see and well-studied organisms like butterflies, especially if they inhabit well-explored areas such as Europe. Researchers have now discovered the ...

Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a significant new discovery on how cells behave and protect themselves against cancers and congenital disorders as reported in Nature on April 21. Dr ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

This is an image of all 46 chromosomes of the cured WHIM syndrome patient shows that one copy of chromosome 2 (red box) is significantly shorter than the other, a loss of genetic material caused by ...

Our genes are arrayed along 23 pairs of chromosomes. On rare occasion, a mutation can change their order. If we picture the genes on a chromosome as One of the most interesting features of our ...

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 ...

IN 1961 Oikawa and Blizzard 1 described an eleven-year-old phenotypic male with bilateral undescended testes, clinical features of Turner's syndrome, a positive buccal smear and absence of a Y ...

Nov. 27 (UPI) --Entomologists in Russia have discovered a new butterfly species with an unusual number of chromosomes. The newly named South Russian blue has 46 chromosomes, the same number as humans.

Our genes are arrayed along 23 pairs of chromosomes. On rare occasion, a mutation can change their order. If we picture the genes on a chromosome as One of the most interesting features of our ...