Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the ...

While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down syndrome — some people don’t believe it. “At the ...

Many sports federations now have more exclusions for the women's category to limit the participation of transgender athletes.

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease—aortic valve stenosis—progresses differently in males and females. The research paves the way for treatments that can be tailored ...

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

If you were following the news last week it seems that those of us with a Y-chromosome (the males) aren’t doing so well. As a ...

PA Sen. Doug Mastriano introduced the Two Gender Protection Act, which was referred to the Senate State Government Committee.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Transposons, or “jumping genes” – DNA segments ... researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear chromosomes, called telomeres, within their ...

(This article uses ‘women’ and ‘female’ to describe people with two X chromosomes and no Y chromosome, reflecting the language of the study. Nature recognizes that not all people who ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. The Y chromosome, transmitted exclusively through the paternal line, is a well-established tool for verifying genealogical data. The ...

There, I learned that a person’s gender is determined by one of two ways that the X and Y chromosomes combine when a sperm cell combines with an egg cell, thus determining if a person is male or ...

Using Hi-C, MicroC, ChIP-seq and RNA-seq data, as well as imaging, this work characterizes the plasmid contact positions along eukaryotic chromosomes with high spatial resolution. ∼70 discrete ...