Jaylen Brown offered one of the most unusual compliments to the Raptors' young star, Scottie Barnes has ever received.

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

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 ...

Here’s a quick reality check: ice cream sales go up in summer, and so do drownings. But no one thinks Ben & Jerry's is a silent killer. It’s correlation, not causation. Yet this same logical ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...

The beaming smile of a Beaufort woman greeted visitors to New York City’s Times Square over the weekend where giant screens displayed the photographs of hundreds of people from across the country with ...

Genes are segments of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) that are located inside every human cell. The DNA inside each cell is tightly coiled in structures called chromosomes. Each chromosome contains a ...

Cutting-edge gene editing technology could eradicate Down syndrome, according to Japanese scientists. Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in ...