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

Researchers have identified a promising strategy to improve memory and brain cell function in models of 22q11.2 Deletion ...

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

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

There are more male orange cats than females because this gene is located on the X-chromosome, which males only have one copy ...

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

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Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UC Davis, and an investigator with the ...

Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Each time a cell divides, its telomeres grow shorter. When they become too short, the cell can no longer replicate. This ...