New findings suggest an explanation for the century-old mystery of how chromosome recombination is regulated during sexual reproduction. In most higher organisms, including humans, every cell carries ...

When the genomes of parents come together to create the genome of a child, their DNA recombines; similar parts are rearranged so that a child carries sections of their parents genomes that have been ...

An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to ...

Common genetic variants affect the risk of abnormalities in chromosome number (a phenomenon known as aneuploidy), a major cause of pregnancy loss, according to a study published in Nature. The ...

Supergenes are sections of chromosomes that hold many genes that are strongly linked to one another. The genes inside a supergene also tend to be inherited together. Researchers have now suggested ...

The Google DeepMind research team is developing a new AI model called ' AlphaGenome,' which can analyze long DNA sequences up to one million characters long at a time and predict 11 major genomic ...

In most higher organisms, including humans, every cell carries two versions of each gene, which are referred to as alleles. Each parent passes on one allele to each offspring. As they are linked ...