Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a new way that an enzyme crucial to the cell's ability to decode genes and duplicate chromosomes can be turned into a poison ...

A new study by a US research consortium has discovered that a small segment of chromosome 16 is either missing or duplicated in about 1 per cent of people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). What ...

Geneticists from Ohio, California and Japan joined forces in a quest to correct a faulty chromosome through cellular reprogramming. Their study, published online today in Nature, used stem cells to ...