This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Hidden Guests” explores how the emerging field of microchimerism is upending medicine, genetics, and our sense of self.

A hallmark of cancerous cells is an abnormal number of chromosomes or chromosome arms, known as aneuploidy. While aneuploidy ...

Orange cats often strut around like they own the place. Their loud yowling, mischief-making tendencies, and marmalade-colored coats make them […] ...

Loss of chromosome Y (LOY) has recently been proposed to be associated with cancer aggressiveness, altered T-cell function, and poor prognosis in bladder carcinomas. Chromosome Y was analyzed using ...

Brain cells, or oligodendrocytes (green), in the hippocampus are marked with the GFP genetic marker in the mouse brain. These cells often deteriorate during aging. Image credit: Gadek et al., Science ...

A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to track genomic reorganization events that gave rise to a highly unusual sex ...

The cocktail-party bore who laces his chatter with the tiresome cliche about “crazy, mixed-up women” has more medical science on his side than he knows—and more than medical scientists themselves have ...

This study offers a valuable genomic dataset, analyses, and functional studies on gonadal sex determination and development. The work addresses long-standing questions regarding the role of the ...

1 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China 2 Synthetic Biology Research Center, Shenzhen University, ...

Sex is determined in a variety of different ways throughout the animal kingdom. In mammals, it is determined genetically, not by temperature, as it can be in reptiles. Typically, females have two X ...