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 connected with a ...

Researchers mapped Y chromosome loss across thousands of individual cells from human cancers, with disturbing results.

Some of the most harmful genetic changes in cancer are also the hardest to see. These structural alterations, deep within a ...

How do living things evolve? What is the myriad of processes by which generic variations in a population affect organisms' ...

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.

Byrne Chair in Biomedical Research and professor of systems biology. “The work by our team outlines how cells follow a few simple rules to build chromosomes and fold DNA into these tiny, intricate ...

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

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

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 ...