Research by an international team of scientists headed by researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine and Uppsala University, has found that loss of the Y chromosome in the ...

The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team of more than 100 researchers around the world, including ...

Super-resolution microscopy image of a mitotic chromosome (white) with the centromeres of each sister chromatid depicted in orange. Each centromere consists of two distinct chromatin subdomains ...

The male Y chromosome has disappeared from a species of rat, leading scientists to investigate how humans might also lose ours in the near future. It's not all bad news for men though, as a paper ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), affects people by different severities. However, the worst-hit are those with bilateral ...

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Using CD22/CD19 CAR T-cell therapy followed by autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) showed promising results in patients ...

The Xist gene, short for X-inactive specific transcript, is necessary for the silencing of one of the two X chromosomes in female mammals, but it is not sufficient alone. Other factors must come into ...