Lawrence, who presented her work at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human ... cells in petri dishes, her team has shown that this approach deactivates the unwanted third chromosome ...

In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes ... centromere can be found on human chromosome 2. And third, whereas a normal chromosome has ...

The theory could help scientists understand the genomic roots of gene regulation, DNA replication and cell differentiation. Human chromosomes ... are known. Third, chromosome organization appears ...

Human cells typically ... and ovarian cell lines. Specifically, they removed an aberrant third copy of the long portion — also known as the “q arm” — of chromosome 1, which is found ...

The first attempt to determine the building blocks of our genetic code took place 20 years ago, but there were still significant gaps left in the sequences of all 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

similar defects have been observed in human and mouse cells in response to ionizing radiation which causes a delay in DNA replication timing that, in turn, affects mitotic chromosome condensation 19.

For the first time scientists have created two lines of human cells that are identical aside from their sex chromosomes: one has XX chromosomes, and one has XY. This unique set of cells could help ...