Genetics plays a crucial role in reproductive medicine, impacting both fertility and the health of offspring. According to ...

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

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

“The diploid alignment was even more dramatically divergent, showing a difference of 16.11% between humans and chimps. When sex chromosomes were analyzed, chimpanzee X chromosomes were over 20% ...

The accurate distribution of chromosomes in an oocyte is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information to the ...

Researchers mapped Y chromosome loss across thousands of individual cells from human cancers, with disturbing results.

University of Adelaide researchers discovered monotremes use a completely different sex determination system than other ...

Scientists are expressing concerns about male reproductive health due to the Y chromosome's genetic material loss, potentially disappearing in 11 million years. A study revealed a sharp decline in ...

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Scientists have discovered that the Y chromosome, crucial for male development, is gradually disappearing. This loss, ...

With age, genes on the previously inactive second X chromosome in female mice increasingly escape silencing, doubling from 3% to 6% overall and reaching up to 9% in some organs.