Fruit firmness plays a critical role in apple quality, influencing both shelf life and consumer preference. Scientists have ...

(NEPC). The findings enhance the understanding of the treatment of androgen receptor functions in NEPC. Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) arises primarily through neuroendocrine ...

Testing SMA patient DNA with advanced methods like HapSMA can reveal genetic changes that affect how severe the disease is, ...

The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

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 ...

Linkage analysis localised the disease gene to chromosome 3p14. A maximum lod score of 6.49 (q = 0) was obtained for the marker at locus D3S3532 on chromosome 3p. Recombination mapping narrowed the ...

STUDIES of human chromosomes have been greatly facilitated by the development of newer technics, particularly peripheral blood leukocyte culture. 1–3 Many abnormalities have been described ...

This competition, or arms race, is typically hard to observe–except when the genes in question live on the X and Y chromosomes, which determine the sex of offspring in mammals. In mice ...

Professor Lucy Wedderburn (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) and Dr Lizzy Rosser (UCL Division of Medicine) discuss their new study finding that an abundance of key immune cells may be influenced by ...