IN what is reported to be part of the largest rewilding project in the world, a northern Zululand game reserve recently welcomed several southern white rhinos to its fold. This latest translocation is ...
A newly developed luciferase-based reporter can detect problems in protein translocation and disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Inspired by natural mechanisms found in ...
Sometimes though, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome is caused when one of the parents has something called a “balanced translocation.” That means two or more of their chromosomes broke and switched ...
Courtesy of Greenwood Genetic Center. Segregation of a Robertsonian translocation: During this process, the short arms of 2 chromosomes are lost. The long arms fuse together at the centromere.
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 ...