A landmark review published in Science reveals that sex chromosomes actively govern cellular aging, cardiac resilience, and ...

Research suggests X and Y chromosomes may influence aging and disease risk, beyond determining biological sex.

Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered how a common genetic mutation disrupts the positioning of a key protein during cell division, revealing a new mechanism behind acute myeloid ...

The near-neutral model of B chromosome evolution predicts that population invasion is quite fast. To test this prediction, in 1994, we introduced males of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans from a ...

Japanese researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to remove the extra chromosome 21 from cells in a lab. It’s a real breakthrough — but ...

New research shows that loss of the tumour suppressor LATS1 on chromosome 6q drives Hippo pathway dysregulation in ultra-high ...

For decades, technical limitations and entrenched expectations shaped chromosome counts, illustrating how accepted scientific ideas can persist despite conflicting evidence.

A new case report describes a fatal infant case of 19p13.3 microdeletion syndrome featuring severe cardiomegaly, ...

A new study reveals that the loss of the Y chromosome in men’s body tissue could pave the way for cancer to develop in that ...

Results provide framework for uncovering regulatory variants in other X chromosome neurodevelopmental genes that may ...

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