Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

virginiana and F. chiloensis. However, the differences in centromere characteristics and evolutionary patterns between wild and cultivated octoploids have remained poorly understood. In a study ...

It’s thanks to tiny caps on the ends of their chromosomes called telomeres. They work like the plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces that keep them from fraying. Every time a cell divides, little ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found that telomeres, protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, may have the ability to stop the growth of cancer cells. This finding, revealed in a ...

Cancer researchers at Children's Medical Research Institute have discovered an "unexpected mechanism" that our cells use to avoid cancer. Telomeres are the protective caps at chromosome ends and ...