Splicing accuracy enhanced This process is crucial for the life of the cell. "The spliceosome is composed of multiple components that secure production of functional proteins controlling cellular life ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — When a little girl from McCandless needed a life-saving bone marrow transplant, hundreds of people ...

Tel Aviv University researchers have made a remarkable discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of genetic mutations and their role in brain development.

Tel Aviv University researchers have made a discovery that could enhance our understanding of genetic mutations and their ...

What Do Your Blood Cells Do?Leukemia develops in the blood cells produced by your bone marrow. These include: Red blood cells (RBCs), which deliver oxygen throughout the bodyWhite blood cells (WBCs), ...

University of Georgia plant biologist Kelly Dawe is connecting genetic mutations in corn to an identical, toxic process in cancers. The process, called the breakage-fusion-bridge cycle, causes ...

Bumping up PLD3 or PLD4 expression boosted BMP levels, and mutations that abolish their ... enzymes do so in an elegant way that results in inversion of the stereochemistry, or handedness, of ...

However, previous studies on humans have shown mixed results about whether such mutations influence the sex ratio. This raises the possibility that the nearly equal ratio could simply result from the ...

Velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCFS), a congenital multiple anomaly syndrome caused by abnormalities on chromosome 22 ... but rare functional polymorphisms (mutations) in a single gene, the genetic ...

These banding patterns became the barcodes with which cytogeneticists could easily identify chromosomes, detect subtle deletions, inversions, insertions, translocations, fragile sites and other ...