When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things—including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother's womb. It depends on the ...

Biased gene conversion (BGC) is a neutral molecular process associated with meiotic recombination that preferentially favours the transmission of guanine (G) and cytosine (C) alleles over adenine (A) ...

Jizo statues at Zōjō-ji Temple in Tokyo representing unborn children. (Tatters/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) Pregnancy loss remains ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...