Newton House in Bath, Somerset, provides respite care by offering brief stays to people with complex needs and disabilities, ...

Conservationists see hopeful signs despite an overall decline in genetic diversity. In the most extensive global analysis of ...

Clearly, when a translocation forms in inverted orientation, thereby creating a dicentric chromosome, a second event will be required to restore stability to the genome. This second event might be ...

In general, rearrangements of heterochromatic regions, such as various translocations between the Y chromosome and acrocentric chromosomes, are found to have no clinical consequence, whereas those ...

In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity ever undertaken, an international team of scientists has found that genetic diversity ...

Chromosomal inversions are an important class of genetic variation that link multiple alleles together into a single inherited block that can have important effects on fitness. To study the role of ...

Genetic diversity loss is happening globally and urgent action needs to be taken, according to the largest to date investigation into genetic ...

TDP43 seems to worsen the inflammatory activation of astrocytes in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), a study found.

The levels of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) increases as the disease progresses in patients with primary biliary cholingitis (PBC), a study found.

Abstract Research of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM), two acquired chronic illnesses affecting mainly females, has failed to ascertain their frequent ...

Allopolyploids are common in natural ecosystems (Grant, 1981). They arise as a result of distant hybridization (and chromosome doubling) between related species containing different sets of related, ...

The biological markers of aging used to predict physical health status in older people are of great interest. Telomere shortening, which occurs during the process of cell replication, was initially ...