A recent study, analyzing genetic data from nearly a million individuals, sheds light on why men are typically taller than ...

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

Cell division is an essential biological process that removes aged cells and continuously renews tissues. In the human body, billions of cells divide each day: intestinal cells are completely renewed ...

It could be a major reason why females tend to have longer lifespans. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images ...

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

Men are taller on average than women. Researchers have finally figured out what’s behind those few extra centimetres.

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

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

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

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

The Y chromosome can disappear over time in human males, which may introduce a number of health problems. While the exact trigger for such degeneration is unknown, environmental factors can play a ...