The male-determining sex chromosome has lost 97 percent of its ancestral genes in the last 300 million years. If that rate ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome ...

A collaborative effort by the Formosa-Jordan lab from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, ...

An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.

They found that in women ages 20 to 32, about 1 in 5 eggs carried a chromosome error. But after 32, that number started ...

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...

Blood type A(B) is caused by a four gene mutations and was discovered when the blood of patients and donors was being studied ...

We're taught that chromosomes define biological sex: xx = female, and xy = male. However, it's not quite that straightforward ...

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high ...

It's a watershed moment for in vitro fertilization (IVF), which can be difficult and expensive. Doctors are hopeful AI can ...