Chromosome 5, Environment, delves into the relationship between genes and things that turn them on or off. Chromosome 11 is home to genes that affect personality; chromosome 20 is the starting ...

"This significant gene loss over the centuries has led scientists to predict that the Y chromosome might vanish entirely in about 11 million years," said Earth.com. From our morning news briefing ...

Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the ...

The nucleus of each human body cell contains 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome contains about 1000 genes. There is enough DNA in all the cells in a human body to stretch to the sun and back again ...

Synteny is a situation in which genes are arranged in similar blocks ... Human chromosome 17 corresponds entirely to a portion of mouse chromosome 11. Other chromosomes, however, show evidence ...

The silencing of the one X chromosome in XX cells is mediated by XIST, a long noncoding RNA that is randomly transcribed from only one X early in development. It coats the DNA and shuts down gene ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

For one, inserting at the end of the chromosome helps the transposon avoid genes for the cell's core functioning, which reside in the middle of the chromosomes; transposons that can target the ...

Genes are the blueprints of life. Genes control everything from hair color to blood sugar by telling cells which proteins to make, how much, when, and where. Genes exist in most cells. Inside a ...