In a newly published article in Nature Genetics, researchers from the University of Chicago have identified tumor aneuploidy—an imbalance in the number of chromosomes—as a powerful biomarker ...

DENVER -- Genetic testing and algorithms revealed that over 1% of more than 96,000 blastocyst-stage embryos had ploidy abnormalities, or atypical numbers of chromosomes. In total, ploidy abnormalities ...

A new study cautions high levels of cannabis use could harm chances of falling pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Testing 1,059 samples of follicular fluid from around the developing eggs ...

It is crucial in the development of cell and gene therapies to understand the impact of the gene editing process on chromosomal structure. When cells are edited, differentiated, modified, or ...

As the cell proceeds through the stages of cell division (from left to right: interphase, prometaphase, metaphase, and anaphase), chromosomes become progressively more compact through a combination of ...