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 ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

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

This week we learned that the Neanderthal/Denisovan/Human family tree is pretty complicated, thanks to a close look into some ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

Researchers used CRISPR to change the number of chromosomes in Arabidopsis by fusing chromosome arms, reducing the genome ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

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 ...