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X and Y chromosomes. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The complete sequence of the human Y chromosome was assembled for the first time

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Scientists have successfully sequenced the entire human Y chromosome, revealing critical genomic features. This groundbreaking research offers deep insights into human biology and potential medical advances. The new sequence reveals genomic factors in fertility, including sperm production.
The consequences of damage to the control mechanism for the separation of chromosomes (SAC) and the KIF18A enzyme in normal cells compared to aneuploid cells

New research reveals a weak point in cancer cells

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Researchers from Tel Aviv University shed light on a 140-year-old mystery in an article published in Nature. The research shows for the first time how an abnormal number of chromosomes (aneploidy) - a unique feature of cancer cells that has been known to researchers for decades - can become a weak point of these cells. The research may in the future lead to the development of drugs that will take advantage of this weak point for targeted damage to cancer cells
Neanderthal man. Illustration: shutterstock

Modern man has lost genes that were on the Y chromosome of the Neanderthals

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Right: Dr. Zvi Telusti and Yonatan Sabir. Correction. Photo: Weizmann Institute

The big stretch

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Telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. From Wikipedia

Researchers have succeeded in reversing the aging process and returning elderly mice to their youth... partially

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From the right: Dr. Amnon Buxboim, Dr. Shirley Dauba, Prof. Roi Bar-Ziv and Dan Bracha

Dense in the genome

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To Prof. Yoram Gruner. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Prof. Yoram Gruner from the Weizmann Institute of Science will receive the Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences on Thursday

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The molecular basis of Down syndrome

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