Caroline Wheeler receives Direct Payments from the health service to arrange care for her adult son Lee, but said the current ...

Chromosomes are cellular structures that contain the genetic material. A chromosome is comprised of a single DNA molecule that may be either circular or linear. The full complement of a cell s ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a groundbreaking method called LoopTrace. By observing overlapping DNA loops ...

Down syndrome occurs due to chromosomal abnormality in which a person has an extra partial or whole copy of chromosome 21. A person with Down syndrome may have a flat nasal bridge, slanted eyes, a ...

A human body contains 46 chromosomes which exist in a pattern of 23 pairs ... with Down syndrome occasionally present two rare variations of the condition: Mosaic Down syndrome appears when only some ...

Ms Kerwin is a founding member of Paaka Thartu Karnu, a grassroots community project that teaches Aboriginal people the art of mosaic so they can create personalised and affordable headstones for ...

When such a template was available, repair proceeded through segmental gene conversion, creating new, mosaic antigen-coding genes. Conversely, in the absence of a suitable template, a telomere ...

2013). The position of the mutation present in the index case was analyzed to verify the allele frequency within this position, to conclude whether the mother had the mutation in mosaicism. Running ...

With mosaic Down syndrome, some cells have two copies of chromosome 21, and some cells have three. If they have no other chromosome number anomalies, some cells have 46 total chromosomes and some have ...