Our cells constantly receive DNA damage from factors such as ultraviolet rays, irradiations, toxins and chemicals. For women, ...

Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women.

Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women.

UCSF researchers found that brain cells age more quickly when they rely solely on the X chromosome inherited from a female's ...

New research at the UO reveals that they have been using one that has existed for 480 million years. The octopus has just ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

In females with two X chromosomes – one inherited from each parent – one of the two X chromosomes is randomly silenced in every cell through a process called X-inactivation. When this process occurs, ...

Quantification and characterization of these multiple HML-2 insertions in the human chromosome has been challenging due to their size, sequence homology with each other, and their repetitive nature.

Scientists have completed construction of the final chromosome in the worlds' first ... crucial processes like copper metabolism and how cells divide their genetic material.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) say they have now found that when the brain cells of female mice express only a maternal X chromosome, the animals’ memory and ...

It prevents females from having twice as many X-chromosome gene products as males have. In males, an imprinted gene that is expressed only from Xm will be expressed in all cells, but because of X ...