Eggs follow a very different developmental path from sperm. Once a male hits puberty, sperm cells are produced continuously ...

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ...

Researchers identified OMC1, an oocyte-specific protein that maintains chromosome cohesion throughout reproductive life, and ...

OMC1 helps protect chromosome structure in eggs during their prolonged dormant stage. The findings suggest that impaired OMC1 ...

Human sex chromosomes originated from a pair of autosomes, the ordinary or non-sex chromosomes that contain the majority of our genome and come in identical pairs. That ancestral pair of autosomes ...

Researchers led by Yimin Chen, Haiying Liu, and Yang Liu from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University ...

It has been known for several years that abnormal chromosome numbers lead to protein imbalances in the affected cells. Researchers at RPTU have now investigated the detailed effects of such imbalances ...

For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit ...

Scientists have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they ...