Sex confirmation testing results for Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif, an Algerian who has racked up numerous medals ...

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

The governing body for boxing apologized to the Algerian gold medalist after announcing a new gender eligibility policy.

In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

A microscopic piece of genetic material known as the Y chromosome made headlines last week. It is nothing new or rare; every man has one in practically every cell, or he would not be a man.

Some chromosomes have more genes than others. About 98% of human DNA does not code for anything. Introns make up about 24% of your DNA. These are segments within genes that do not code for a ...

Chromosomes themselves are made up of proteins and DNA that carry your genetic information from cell to cell. When an egg is fertilized, the egg itself always contributes an X chromosome ...

The latter study the architecture of the genome. In the nucleus of our cells, chromosomes, made up of DNA and proteins, are not folded randomly. Physically close regions interact with each other ...

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“Fossil chromosomes have never been found before ... it is expected to lose the structure and the attributes that make up the species’ biology. “However, this study is the first to ...