Patients 9 and 10 (AGRE cohort) are siblings with autism and a smaller duplication nested within BP4–BP5 inherited from their apparently unaffected mother. The recent recognition of genomic imbalance ...

SpaceX is reviewing data from the recent incidents to improve the reliability of future Falcon 9 flights. (Updates with the latest information) SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is upright on its Kennedy ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Cornell ...

In a surprise, work in mice has found that the dormant X chromosome in females can reawaken late in life and turn on genes that keep the brain healthy. UCSF researchers may have discovered how the ...

Researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear chromosomes, called telomeres, within their bacterial host. In Streptomyces -- historically one of the most ...

Now researchers might have uncovered a source for this resilience: the second X chromosome in female cells that was previously considered ‘silent’. Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same way ...

Females carry two X chromosomes. One of them is ensconced in a corner in the cell called the Barr body, where it can't express many genes, and scientists thought it didn't do much of anything.

Correspondence to Dr Minna Männikkö, Northern Finland Birth Cohort Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Aapistie 5 / P.O. Box 5000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland; minna.ruddock{at}oulu.fi Background Low ...

Human-accelerated regions (HARs) in chromosomes help human neurons grow multiple neurites. When HARs were added to artificial chimpanzee neurons, as seen on the right, they grew extra neurites, ...