Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered how a common genetic mutation disrupts the positioning of a key protein during cell division, revealing a new mechanism behind acute myeloid ...

Research suggests X and Y chromosomes may influence aging and disease risk, beyond determining biological sex.

A landmark review published in Science reveals that sex chromosomes actively govern cellular aging, cardiac resilience, and ...

Draft genomes generated using more affordable second-generation sequencing technologies could be assembled for a larger ...

For decades, technical limitations and entrenched expectations shaped chromosome counts, illustrating how accepted scientific ideas can persist despite conflicting evidence.

A new review published in Science brings together growing evidence that the X and Y chromosomes do more than determine ...

Human sex chromosomes originated from a pair of autosomes, the ordinary or non-sex chromosomes that contain the majority of our genome and come in identical pairs. That ancestral pair of autosomes ...

Repetitive DNA and the D1 protein help matching fruit fly chromosomes recognize one another before eggs form.

The first Hi-C analysis of the tiny alga Ostreococcus tauri shows that its enigmatic low-GC outlier chromosomes fold into ...

In cell division, one cell becomes two.”Your child might be able to answer up to this point.However, when it comes to ...

Your biological sex chromosomes may play a much larger role in how your body fights off deadly diseases and ages than ...

How are these unique sex chromosomes formed? "The sex of a somatic cell as highly differentiated as a neurone may be detected ...