When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

A major international study led by Flinders University has identified a genetic contributor to juvenile glaucoma. Published ...

A subtle failure during cell division can set off dramatically different outcomes, according to new research exploring whole ...

Cell division is one of the most fundamental and complex processes underpinning life. In human cells, thousands of molecules ...

Different types of cell division failure shape whether duplicated cells survive, remain stable, or lead to cancer.

Geneticists have unearthed a major event in the ancient history of sturgeons and paddlefish that has significant implications for the way we understand evolution. They have pinpointed a previously ...

Many people use the terms “redundancy” and “duplication” synonymously. They are not synonymous, especially when it comes to how we should use them to describe actions that increase our disaster ...

Novel gene function associated with gene duplication can arise in either of two ways. According to the NEO-F model, novel function arises after gene duplication, with one copy maintaining ancestral ...

MECP2 Duplication Syndrome is a progressive neurological disorder due to a chromosomal anomaly. The chromosomal disorder was first reported in 2005 and involves duplication of the methyl CpG binding ...