The enigmatic Y chromosome has a tendency to disappear from cells with age. Now, research is revealing the long-term impacts this can have on disease risk and life expectancy ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of Darwin. One focus of current debates is whether adaptive evolution relies ...

University of Florida researchers decoded blackberry genetics, promising thornless, disease-resistant, tastier blackberries.

Females have two X chromosomes (XX). Males have one X and one Y chromosome (XY). All eggs contain one X chromosome. Half of sperm contain one X chromosome and half contain one Y chromosome.

A new study, appearing in Nature Genetics and led by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard revealed that her daughter, Aurora, tested negative for 1q21.1 microdeletion, which is a genetic ...

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Tuesday that the track and field’s governing body has approved the introduction of cheek swabs and dry blood-spot tests for female athletes in order to ...

The sex-ratio balance is maintained as genes on the X and Y chromosomes co-adapt to keep ... Ph.D., associate professor of human genetics and senior author on the paper. "Spermatogenesis can ...

Dopamine plays a key role in controlling movement and processing emotions, among other abilities. The HPRT1 gene is found on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes in humans; females ...