Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UC Davis, and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal ...

Two proteins, TRF2 and RAP1, work together to block a repair process that would otherwise treat the natural ends of chromosomes as broken DNA and try to fix them. Formation of the TRF2–RAP1 ...

Failure to properly condense chromatin leads to segregation problems that result in broken chromosomes and/or aneuploidy, or cell death. Our recent data show that the protein levels of SIRT1 rise in ...

We have previously shown that crossover sites become designated when the broken chromosome first interacts with its partner homolog (Börner et al., 2004). This indicates that crossover sites are ...

The “broken” chromosome usually isn’t inherited from either parent; the deletion typically occurs after fertilization. Doctors do think that three different genes can be deleted from ...

The process, called the breakage-fusion-bridge cycle, causes dramatic changes in chromosome number and structure, which in turn lead cancer-related genes to metastasize. With an engineered corn ...

A broken tailbone can be very painful ... we use “male and female” to refer to someone’s sex as determined by their chromosomes and “men and women” when referring to their gender ...

But sometimes, problems can occur. Some cancers, for example, are caused by broken or defective chromosomes. These cells also usually don’t lose their telomeres, which means that they can grow ...

Chromosomes are made up of around 1,000 genes ... Genetic recombination is a process in which pieces of DNA are broken, recombined, and repaired to produce a new allele. Also referred to as "genetic ...

The natural ends of chromosomes appear alarmingly like broken DNA, much as a snapped spaghetti strand is difficult to distinguish from its intact counterparts. Yet every cell in our bodies must ...

The natural ends of chromosomes appear alarmingly like broken DNA, much as a snapped spaghetti strand is difficult to distinguish from its intact counterparts. Yet every cell in our bodies must ...