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

Scientists are expressing concerns about male reproductive health due to the Y chromosome's genetic material loss, ...

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

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

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

A human’s sex is genetically determined. One of our 23 pairs of chromosomes carries genes that determine the embryo’s sex; ...

"Sex differences in age-related disease are incredibly ... While the role of the X chromosome and some escape genes have been studied before, the discovery that many genes on the inactive X ...

Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who won gold in Paris, is under scrutiny again as chromosome tests from 2023 indicated a male karyotype.

Women can only pass on the X chromosome, while it's male sperm that determines whether a baby will be of female sex (X) or ...