Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only ...

The translocation most typically found in mantle cell lymphoma drags a powerful regulatory element into a new area of the human genome.

Translocations are chromosomal "cut and paste" errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most ...

Mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the nucleus, the study found, where the DNA becomes integrated into the cells' chromosomes. And these insertions may be causing harm ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms a compact X-shaped structure with two rod-like copies.