Two X chromosomes mean girl, and an X paired with a Y means boy. For the last 300 million years, this system has worked very ...

A new paper published in Nature on June 4 shines light on how an enigmatic part of male aging—the loss of Y chromosomes—is ...

A biology professor at a Texas community college has claimed he was fired for “religious preaching” after he taught a lesson about how sex is determined by X and Y chromosomes. Johnson Varkey ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The nucleus of each human body cell contains 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome contains about 1000 genes. There is ...

In the multilayer chromosome model, the repetitive weak ... Daban considers that molecular biology discovered the self-assembly of diverse biomolecular structures, but at present the research ...

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another ...

City of Hope®, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S. with its National ...

Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science ... which explores how custom-built genes could reshape our understanding of biology and lead to powerful new technologies.

City of Hope researchers have co-led the first study to demonstrate that characterizing genetic material near chromosomes ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland and ...

“These findings provide new insights into the biology of the X chromosome in ASD, providing additional evidence for the involvement of certain genes like DDX53 and FGF13, and suggesting they ...

Could fossil chromosomes make the dream of resurrecting the woolly mammoth a reality? “The fundamental biology that we learn from this is going to be useful, there is no question about it ...