Sentences with phrase «wrong number of chromosomes»

Perhaps because it is normal for human embryos to contain cells with the wrong number of chromosomes, which can cause them to self - destruct.

As women age, their eggs are more likely to have the wrong number of chromosomes, which can lead to miscarriages.

When the dancers don't pair or part appropriately it can result in eggs and sperm with the wrong number of chromosomes, a major cause of miscarriage and birth defects.

Jason: Normal cells have 46 chromosomes, but nearly all cancer cells have the wrong number of chromosomes.

For women in their mid-forties, there is a dramatic increase in the risk that their eggs will have the wrong number of chromosomes after ovulation.

In 1902 he reasoned that having the wrong number of chromosomes could cause cells to grow uncontrollably and become the seeds of cancerous tumors.

«P53 was already known to monitor many things, like DNA damage and having the wrong number of chromosomes, that make division dangerous for cells,» says Andrew Holland, Ph.D., an assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Around 75 per cent of miscarriages are thought to be caused by an embryo having the wrong number of chromosomes — a condition called aneuploidy.

If cells don't have a SAC, or the SAC is damaged in some way when cells divide, often the female cells inherit the wrong number of chromosomes.

Cole Laboratory publishes new paper in Cell (10/19/2017)- Chromosome mis - segregation creates cells with the wrong number of chromosomes (aneuploid cells).

Nearly all tumors exhibit a condition known as aneuploidy — their cells contain the wrong number of chromosomes.