Polyploidy often occurs in human diseases and cancers, and its effect on cell fate was unclear. Now, however, researchers from Japan have shown that polyploidy can be a double-edged sword when it ...

Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...

Wendel said there are 144 genomes in a cotton plant and for a polyploid, an individual cell will have about 500,000 genes. Wendel’s research has shown that genomic downsizing occurs following ...