The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup.

Chromosomal inversions are an important class of genetic variation that link multiple alleles together into a single inherited block that can have important effects on fitness. To study the role of ...

A recent review provides a comprehensive summary of data on unbalanced chromosome abnormalities ... detectable insertions to the range of about 8–40 kb and deletions to >8 kb in size, probably ...

1 observed that chromosome 17 (refs. 2 and 3) occasionally bore satellites. In 1,303 karyotype analyses from 148 different individuals, only eight of the cells had such a chromosome. It had a ...