To protect vulnerable 16 and 17 year olds, the offences of 'abuse of a position of trust' prohibits sexual contact between adults and children under 18 in schools, colleges and residential care.
Chromosome abnormalities usually happen as a result of an error in cell division. Meiosis is the name used to describe the cell division that the egg and sperm undergo when they are developing. Normally, meiosis causes a halving of chromosome material, so that each parent gives 23 chromosomes to a pregnancy.
âFurther studies of the contractile ring could ultimately lead to improved therapies for cancer,â said first author Ana Carvalho, PhD. âUnderstanding the cellular machinery required for cell division may teach us how to prevent the uncontrolled cell division that occurs in cancer.â Arshad Desai, PhD, professor at the Ludwig Institute and assistant professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UCSD also contributed to the paper.