The accurate distribution of chromosomes in an oocyte is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information to the ...

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

Superman syndrome, also known as 47, XYY, is a condition classified as a chromosomal aneuploidy (which is an abnormality in chromosome structure and/or number) in which males have an additional Y ...

Back in 1900 the life expectancy of people with Down Syndrome was 9 years. In 1984, it was 28 years, today it's leveled off ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Google DeepMind in London could help scientists to make sense of this ...

The chromosomes of sperm cells are tightly packaged into a complex of DNA and protamines. Converting the chromatin from a nucleohistone to a nucleoprotamine structure may serve both biophysical ...

University of Adelaide researchers discovered monotremes use a completely different sex determination system than other ...

An international research team led by Dr. André Marques from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Prof. Dr. Christiane ...

Attorneys representing a group of Bow parents banned from attending school activities for wearing pink wristbands in support ...

A 4,500-year-old Chinese burial site has revealed a rare matrilineal society where women led clans for ten generations.

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Spanish National Cancer ...