Unique sex chromosomes occur in species from humans to birds, worms, and flies. An unequal pair of sex chromosomes, each carrying a different complement of genes, requires specific efforts to regulate ...

Iowa State University researchers have unlocked new secrets within the bacteria responsible for the creation of thousands of ...

Bacterial DNA much more twisted than originally thought. Akin to the well-mixed colors in Jackson Pollock’s ‘Convergence’, the findings reported by transposable phage Mu highlight that all loci in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In a new study, scientists probed the ways in which the X chromosome may change with age and ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have demonstrated an intriguing new variation on the CRISPR gene-editing system, which involves fixing a mutation on one chromosome by ...

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 ...

New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflammation in the female brain, ...

In a surprising discovery, MIT scientists found tiny loops in the genomes of dividing cells. Enabled by a high-resolution ...

New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflammation in the female brain, ...

In 2019, a group of researchers in Japan published a study that promised the potential to revolutionize sex selection for ...