How does DNA recombination work? It occurs frequently in many different cell types, and it has important implications for genomic integrity, evolution, and human disease. In the alternate pathway ...

Oribatid mites, minuscule soil-dwelling creatures, have been decomposing organic matter for millions of years. With over ...

How is the same process responsible for genetic recombination and diversity also the cause of aneuploidy? Understanding the steps of meiosis is essential to learning how errors occur. Researchers ...

Marine biologists at the University of Gothenburg have identified what may be the world’s largest known clonal organism—a ...

While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. However, there is some evidence that the Y ...

Researchers led by Prof. TONG Minghan from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with Prof. HUANG Ying from Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai ...

Bjarni V. Halldorsson and Kari Stefansson, scientists at deCODE genetics, discuss the paper: Complete recombination map of the human-genome, published in Nature today. The paper continues 25 years of ...

The techniques involve the manipulation, modification, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules to modify an organism's genetic makeup. Basic steps of genetic engineering. In step 1, a ...

Recombination between 2 different chromosomes has the potential to alter the genetic information in a cell. For example, when homologs recombine, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) can result, in which ...