For more than a decade, scientists have been aware of chromothripsis — the process in which a single chromosome breaks into pieces and is rearranged in random order, enabling cancer cells to evolve ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

In a major leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can predict the 3D shape of ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled ...

Every living being possesses a particular number of chromosome pairs that it inherited from both parents. In human beings, for example, there are 23 pairs, i.e., 46 chromosomes altogether, tomatoes ...

Community-developed approach combines multi-contact 3C with HiFi sequencing to deliver haplotype-resolved assemblies from minimal input materialMENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...