A gene on the X chromosome revs up inflammation in the female brain, which may explain why rates of multiple sclerosis are ...

She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the ...

Sex determination at birth is decided on the chromosomes the baby has. A female has two X chromosomes, whereas a male has one X and one Y chromosome. According to Medline Plus, in every cell, humans ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Scientists have decoded the Y chromosome in full for the first time. In a new article published Aug. 23 in Nature, scientists with the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium—a group of researchers ...

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

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

A study reveals that a protein called RPA is essential for maintaining chromosome stability by stimulating telomerase. New findings from the-Madison suggest that problems with a key protein that helps ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, an Iowa State University research team found that the way DNA is arranged in a bacterial species used extensively in genetic engineering can change how well it grows, ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...