A new study brings together growing evidence that the X and Y chromosomes do much more than just determine biological sex.

Chromosomes are thread-like structures comprising DNA that are present inside the nucleus of every cell in the body. Specific segments of DNA are called genes. Every chromosome contains many genes, ...

Chromosomes are tightly coiled structures in each of your cells that contain DNA, the code for all life. DNA is organized in segments on chromosomes called genes. Humans typically have 46 chromosomes ...

Sex, Genes and Chromosomes: Their Discovery, Function and Evolution Jennifer A. Marshall Graves Cambridge Univ. Press (2026) “Sex is the most profound normal difference between human individuals,” ...

An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped ...

In societies where children inherit their father’s surname, family names should, in theory, trace the same path through ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA—its genome—and segregate it equally ...

Researchers have just completed the first full sequence of a Y chromosome- what will we learn? The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, co-led by UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Associate Director ...