The advent of near-haploid human cells, containing one copy of most chromosomes instead of two, has had a profound impact on the field of genetic screening and drug target identification.

James Tiptree, Jr.'s 1969 story "Your Haploid Heart" concerns an interplanetary biological investigator with a mission similar to Tiptree's own: defining humanity. 1 He makes a curious discovery — a ...

Haploid gametes contain 23 single chromosomes. copies of the genetic information are made the cell divides twice to form four gametes, each with a single set of chromosomes (haploid) all gametes ...

The developmental processes of positive and negative selection in the thymus shape the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) repertoire and require the integration of multiple signaling networks.

However, embryos can be affected by more complex abnormalities on the whole haploid set of chromosomes, which are "highly ...