Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), which relies on cell-free fetal DNA in the mother's blood, is increasingly common. Yet two studies published online Apri 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

New research shows genome duplication in the ancestor of modern gymnosperms, a group of seed plants that includes cypresses and pines, might have directly contributed to the origin of the group over ...

In a breakthrough discovery, published in Nature Communications, scientists from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with researchers at Newcastle University and The Francis Crick ...

A new study shows that how a cell fails to divide after copying its DNA can determine its fate. Cell division is one of the most fundamental and complex processes underpinning life. In human cells, ...

Researchers at USC have developed a yeast model to study a gene mutation that disrupts the duplication of DNA, causing massive damage to a cell's chromosomes, while somehow allowing the cell to ...