Familial Chromosome-2, 3 Translocation Ascertained through an Infant with Multiple Malformations Authors: Catherine S. N. Lee, M.B., Peter B. owen, M.D., Herman Rosenblum, M.D., and Lydia Linsao ...

Chromosomes can be considered as self-organized liquid crystals Nucleosomes are repetitive building blocks introduced in the ...

The rare, inherited condition causes clinical symptoms which typically appear in the first few years of life, and are similar to other known chromosome 'breakage' disorders. Crucially the ...

The mitotic checkpoint is a cell cycle control mechanism that guards against chromosome missegregation and the subsequent production of aneuploid daughter cells. Although aneuploidy is a common ...

Image Credit: Rost9 / Shutterstock.com The normal male sex chromosomes are XY; in the case of Superman syndrome, males possess one additional Y chromosome in addition to the paternally inherited Y ...

Telomeres — the “caps” on the end of chromosomes that protect the DNA from damage — have been associated with greater longevity. In theory, longer telomeres should allow a cell to divide ...