Both genes and chromosomes are types of genetic material that consist of DNA, but they have some key differences. Learn more here.

Learn about the structure and function of chromosomes, the role they play in genetics, and how they influence your health and shape medical research.

While the order of how genes are arranged on a chromosome can be consistent across different closely related species, centromere repositioning also occurs throughout evolution.

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

Origin-recognition complex (ORC) plays an unexpectedly broad role in the regulation of human cell gene expression, according ...

Non-Africans carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes — yet there's one chromosome where DNA from our ancient cousins is nowhere to be found.