Researchers studied data from a million people and found evidence that a height gene shared by both sexes is amplified in men ...

The Y chromosome is about one-third the size of the X and contains far fewer genes. Now, scientists have found that this ...

Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science fiction, but scientists have actually done it-and made it work. In ...

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring amino—the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites ...

Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

What makes orange cats orange? For over 60 years, scientists have been searching for the answer. Researchers from Japan have ...

The lost link in a gene called ARHGAP36 makes it so that the cells in orange felines produce lighter colors for their skin, eyes, and fur tone. In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible for ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a ...