A research group led by Wei Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has created mice born from two male parents and capable of ...

A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse—a mouse ...

A structural abnormality can include an alteration to the structure of the chromosome, as the name suggests. However, a numerical abnormality means that an individual is either missing one of the ...

The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell ... advance plant breeding by optimising the production of double-haploid lines and thus accelerating the breeding process," the IPK ...

Y chromosome haplogroups can be successfully predicted from Y-short tandem repeat (STR) markers using different software packages, and this method gained much attention recently due to its labor-, ...

This month's cover highlights the article The Dystrophin-Dystroglycan complex ensures cytokinesis efficiency in Drosophila epithelia by Eurico Morais-de-Sá, Margarida Gonçalves and colleagues. The ...