We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

By the age of 70, about 40% of men have lost the Y chromosome in at least some of their white blood cells. This condition, ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Women have slightly longer life expectancy than men, but how does health differ between the two sexes as we get older?

Just days after his oldest son was born, columnist Joe MacDonald received astonishing news: Baby Julian had severe hemophilia A.

Almost all cervical cancers are caused by human papillomaviruses (HPVs). In most cases, HPV DNA is integrated into the human genome. We found that tumor-specific, HPV-human DNA junctions are ...

“Conflict” seems to imply war and genocide. If disease killed them, it would be very odd for another group to move into their ...

The new research advances epigenetic programming as a reproductive tool to breed motherless mice without compromising on ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

One of the genes located on the Y chromosome, designated UTY, plays a vital role in regulating the immune system. Its absence can lead to dysfunctional immune cells; some may overproduce scar tissue, ...