IntroductionHave you ever encountered the diagnosis of "Klinefelter syndrome" in a medical or nursing setting and found ...

Stefan Fröhling, M.D., and Hartmut Döhner, M.D. The cause of chromosomal abnormalities remains poorly understood. Studies of various types of leukemia have shown that certain environmental and ...

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 ...

Using a new technique, long-read sequencing, that allows DNA to be analyzed in much greater detail than before, a team of Swedish clinicians and researchers has discovered an unexpected complexity in ...

We have looked at the process from collecting cells from an embryo for PGT to sending them off for testing.So, what can we ...

An AI tool identifies cells that can shed light on the earliest origins of cancer through a game of molecular ‘laser tag’. The human body relies on precise genetic instructions to function, and cancer ...

A toddler with special needs beams with joy as he tries on a pair of glasses and sees his parents’ faces for the first time.

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), which utilizes high-throughput sequencing technology to analyze cell-free DNA fragments from maternal peripheral plasma, has been widely adopted in clinical ...

Researchers have developed a new prenatal test that can determine if a fetus or embryo has the right number of chromosomes at a fraction of the time, cost of other genetic tests. A new prenatal test ...

Translocations, in genetics, happen when chromosomes break and the pieces attach to other chromosomes. This mixing of genetic material has important results. The resultant chromosomes are lacking in ...