An essential region of our chromosomes changes far more rapidly than one might imagine. A large-scale analysis of human ...

Why do humans rely on XY chromosomes to determine sex, while birds use ZW—and many reptiles use neither, letting temperature ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Scientists have taken an important step forward in understanding the human genome - our genetic blueprint - by fully deciphering the enigmatic Y chromosome present in ...

For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit ...

Scientists have recently reconstructed the ancestral karyotype of the banana family, revealing how chromosome numbers ...

For decades, the Y chromosome — one of the two human sex chromosomes — has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure. Now, this elusive ...

A sweeping analysis of thousands of animal genomes suggests that chromosomes do not evolve randomly but instead follow a limited number of irreversible “evolutionary highways.” These one-way genetic ...

Prognosis is poor for tumours with Y-chromosome loss. Examining the interplay between cancer and immune cells sheds light on potential mechanisms. Read the paper: Concurrent loss of the Y chromosome ...

SINGAPORE – Former nurse Tim (not his real name) could never recall anything he learnt more than two days ago. Neither could ...

Genetic surveys show that an estimated 40% of 70 year old men lose the Y chromosome from their circulating blood cells.By age ...