A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...

The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have demonstrated an intriguing new variation on the CRISPR gene-editing system, which involves fixing a mutation on one chromosome by ...

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The existence of orange cats dates back to at least the 12th century, but scientists have only had theories that a sex-linked genetic mutation is behind it. Now, new research has pinpointed the exact ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

Someone has drawn a mascot on the whiteboard in Mitchell Guttman’s molecular-biology laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. It looks like a tangled ball of blue ...