Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while ...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could unlock how the flower got that way. By Veronique Greenwood The vast majority of ...

Micronuclei and Y Chromosome Loss: The formation of micronuclei, small cellular structures containing chromosomes or fragments, plays a critical role in the disintegration of the Y chromosome, linking ...

That changed in 2014, when Swedish scientists showed that Y loss in blood cells correlates with how long men live – those who ...

Cutting-edge gene editing technology could eradicate Down syndrome, according to Japanese scientists. Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflammation in the female brain, ...