A recent review shows the role of chromosomal translocations in causing a range of cancers. Emerging, personalized therapies target these translocations. A broken chromosome is like an unmoored ...

Chromosomal translocations occur in leukemias, lymphomas, sarcomas and some epithelial tumors and some generate unique fusion proteins. These translocation products may provide tumor-specific targets ...

MONGOLISM is usually the result of trisomy of a small acrocentric chromosome in Group 21–22 in the Denver Classification. This is generally referred to as 21-trisomy. These patients have a somatic ...

DISASTROUS disease outbreaks like the one which led to the decimation of the red squirrel in Britain can now be avoided through the implementation of new preventive measures developed by UK scientists ...

A broken chromosome is like an unmoored beansprout circling in search of attachment. If a cell tries to replicate itself with broken chromosomes, the cell will be killed and so it would very much like ...