Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory. Tovar, 32, grew up poor and was the first in her family to ...

Scientists have discovered, for the first time, how root cells respond to their complex soil environment, revealing that ...

The enigmatic Y chromosome has a tendency to disappear from cells with age. Now, research is revealing the long-term impacts this can have on disease risk and life expectancy ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

The marker being in mosaic ... 3, 10, 11, 14); type IV: D15Z1→D15S17::D15S17→D15Z1 (cases 4–7, 12) and one class with asymmetry, giving a trisomy for the involved chromosome region; type ...

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 ...

jhmi.edu Background Trisomy 13 occurs in 1/10 000–20 000 live births ... or in early mitosis followed by anaphase lags. The extra chromosome 13 was maternal in origin in all three cases. Mosaicism ...

Urinary 17-ketosteroid excretion was 10.2 mg. per 24 hours ... Two types of accident that will result in a mosaic of cells with different chromosome numbers may occur (Fig. 4).

This important study provides solid evidence that glucosylceramide synthase (GlcT), a rate-limiting enzyme for glycosphingolipid (GSL) production, plays a role in the differentiation of intestinal ...

and chromosome segregation. One rare variant in the gene FBXO10, which is short for encoding F-box protein 10, increased the risk of acquiring mLOX by two-fold. The protein encoded by this gene ...