Women age differently from men when it comes to health—particularly in conditions like cardiovascular disease and ...

Height is one of the most evident sex-based differences observed in humans, as men are on an average 13 cm (5 inches) taller ...

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During ...

I married a tall woman out of love, partly from genetic ambition. I figured we’d gift our kids a vertical advantage. It turns ...

With aging, the tightly packed structure of the silent X chromosome is gradually loosened, allowing for genes to be read ...

A new study provides new insight into height differences between adult men and women, demonstrating that Y chromosome genes contribute more to height than their X chromosome counterparts.

In human cells, the number was even higher, up to 30%. Damage depended on the repair enzyme DNA-PK, showing that the usual repair process was mistakenly being activated at the ends of chromosomes.

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During mitosis, centromeres ...

Genetic testing is essential for different reasons, specifically to check the number of chromosomes – that is, the 23 pairs of strands in the cells. When there is an abnormal number, it is ...

The existence of orange cats dates back to at least the 12th century, but scientists have only had theories that a sex-linked ...

This phenomenon is called X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) and is expected to result in a pronounced male bias in X-linked heritability, which has been observed in this study for most traits. However, ...