Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

Prenatal screening empowers expectant parents with vital knowledge that helps them make informed decisions during a delicate phase of life. Not just intellectual disabilities Down Syndrome can also le ...

Human cells have two copies of each chromosome, and this balance is essential for genes to be expressed in the appropriate ...

There is something like less than one chance in 10 billion that this kind of thing could occur," said one expert.

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance.

Recent DNA analysis determined that it's not actually the case that one in 200 men today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome ...

Researchers at a lab in Kansas City believe they have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding infertility.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists know that Neanderthals and humans mated because there ...

The Y Chromosome in male humans is gradually degenerating. Credit: aparticulate. CC BY-ND 2.0/flickr As men age, some of their cells quietly lose the Y chromosome. For decades, scientists believed ...

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years later in a commentary, "is running out of time." The male-determining sex ...