A number of the chromosomes of man are known to be involved in translocations. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an assumed translocation involving the second and third chromosome pairs.

How much an infant cries is largely steered by their genetics, and there is probably not much that parents can do about it. This has been shown in a new Swedish twin study from Uppsala University ...

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Scientists have refined a new way of using genetics to identify whether someone has type 1 or type 2 diabetes in Chinese populations—and it is now being used in a large clinical trial to improve ...

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have discovered that the most abundant protein in the human body, collagen I, acts as a key platform in accelerating amylin ...

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The herbicide 2,4-D has also produced tumorlike swellings in treated plants. In such plants, the chromosomes become short, thick, and clumped together, and cell division is seriously retarded.