Sex determination at birth is decided on the chromosomes the baby has. A female has two X chromosomes, whereas a male has one X and one Y chromosome. According to Medline Plus, in every cell, humans ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...

Scientists have decoded the Y chromosome in full for the first time. In a new article published Aug. 23 in Nature, scientists with the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium—a group of researchers ...

Chromosomes are thread-like structures comprising DNA that are present inside the nucleus of every cell in the body. Specific segments of DNA are called genes. Every chromosome contains many genes, ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental condition that can be diagnosed at any age, although the symptoms tend to appear in the first two years of a patient's life. ASD can ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around three billion base pairs in humans, this material ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

While the Y chromosome's role was believed to be limited to the functions of the sexual organs, a scientist has shown that it impacts the functions of other organs as well. New light is being shed on ...

Women may think of men as primitive, but new research indicates that the Y chromosome — the thing that makes a man male — is evolving far faster than the rest of the human genetic code. A new study ...