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

When cancer cells in male patients and immune cells in their tumors both lose the Y chromosome, those patients tend to ...

Octopuses just stunned scientists again this time with their ancient and highly unique sex chromosomes. Unlike most animals, octopuses seem to possess a genetic system that predates our current ...

A study on beetleweed shows that autopolyploid plants with different chromosome sets can coexist, reshaping how scientists ...

The medical report, done by diagnostic services provider Dr LalPath Labs, said that Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif ...

The desire to define who counts as a woman for the purpose of sports dates back to Hitler’s Olympics. On the night of Aug. 4, ...

A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how loss of the Y chromosome ...

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

The fading of boy preference in regions where it was strongest has been astonishingly rapid. The natural ratio is about 105 ...

In a recent TikTok video, a Black woman pronounced that gingers are a part of the Black community. This is the type of ...

J.K. Rowling is leading the charge, calling for Olympic boxer Imane Khelif to be stripped of a gold medal after a leaked ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...