New research shows the X chromosome influences disease risk, immunity and drug response beyond its role in sex.

Researchers are gaining a new appreciation for the genes on the X and Y chromosomes and how they shape sex differences in ...

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Scientists are celebrating DNA Day, marking the completion of the human genome project in 2003. The project successfully ...

I married a tall woman out of love, partly from genetic ambition. I figured we’d gift our kids a vertical advantage. It turns out that Mother Nature and Friar Mendel’s peas don’t translate into ...

The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team of more than 100 researchers around the world, including ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute studying male mice engineered with different Y chromosome deletions have uncovered which genes on the mouse Y chromosome regulate the development of sperm ...

The lab of developmental biologist Dr. Eric Lai has been studying evolutionary battles of the sexes in fruit flies. This colorful snapshot, courtesy of the Lai Lab, depicts sperm maturation in fruit ...

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between ...