Chromothripsis enables cancer cells to evolve and resist treatment. With their new findings, researchers hope to explore ways ...

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 ...

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. However, there is some evidence that the Y ...

Women can only pass on the X chromosome, while it's male sperm that determines whether a baby will be of female sex (X) or ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

Scientists remain divided over whether the human Y chromosome will eventually vanish. But clinicians say the real concern ...

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 ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...

Cancer cells acquire genetic anomalies that allow them to grow and proliferate unchecked. Researchers have now found another difference between cancer cells and normal cells: the X chromosome, ...

Cell division is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information. Each chromosome within a plant contains a ...