Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

Find out more about how loss of Y chromosome in ageing males was linked to higher heart attack risk in a large prospective ...

A study revealed that the Y chromosome, which determines male sex, is degenerating and may vanish in a few million years. Research on Sry-deficient Amami spiny rats, which lost the Y chromosome but ...

The good news is two branches of rodents have already lost their Y chromosome and have lived to tell the tale. A new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows how the spiny rat has ...

Analyzing genetic data from nearly 140,000 IVF embryos, researchers linked maternal DNA variants to increased risk of ...

Sophisticated techniques offer insights into the unusual features of the inactive X chromosome in female mammalian cells RIKEN cell biologists have provided an unprecedented glimpse into the ...

Chromosomes are masters of organization. These long strings of DNA fold down into an ensemble of compact structures that keep ...

Research confirmed that the 'Y' chromosome, which is essential for sex determination in humans, is actually shrinking in size over time due to genetic decay. This could potentially lead to a future ...

In mammals, the females have two copies of the X chromosome while the males carry a single copy. The X chromosome is more significant than for its role in determining sex. Recent genomic studies have ...

A study from the University of Kent has been making the rounds on social media lately and sparked concern among netizens. The findings revealed that the Y chromosome is dwindling, which is primarily ...