Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply—and can contribute to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Researchers have developed an AI-assisted technology that can identify and tag chromosomal abnormalities in cells.

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply - and can contribute to infertility, pregnancy ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

An X chromosome gene appears to drive inflammation in the brain, and may explain why women are more likely to develop MS, per ...