HOUGHTON, MI – A resolution declaring there are “only two sexes male and female” is on a county board agenda in Michigan’s ...

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

An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

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

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years ...

From a distance, mules and horses can look so similar that it’s easy for non–horse people to lump them together. While they may be related, they are by no means the same animal. Why are mules and ...

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