Some organisms don’t stick with the genome they’ve got they alter it along the way through programmed chromosome elimination and genome editing.
All tagged chromosomes
Does cancer care about sex?
Presenter Kat Arney tells the story of how biomathematician Kristin Swanson discovered that cancer cells with XX chromosomes behave differently to cancer cells with XY chromosomes.
Fusion genes and cancer cures: The story of the Philadelphia Chromosome
We tell the story of the ‘Philadelphia chromosome’ (a key cause of chronic myeloid leukaemia), how it was discovered and how it’s discovery influenced the search for a cure.
The case of the missing human chromosomes
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, right? Well, for a long time that wasn’t true…
Stäbchen in the Dark
Stäbchen, mitosen or plain old chromosomes? The story behind the ‘little skewers’ of life inside every cell.