A gene on the X chromosome revs up inflammation in the female brain, which may explain why rates of multiple sclerosis are ...

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 ...

Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in every cell of the body. People with ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...

In a milestone achievement, a whole chromosome has been created from scratch by scientists for the first time ever. The tRNA Neochromosome is a man-made chromosome of the common baker's yeast ...

In humans and many other animal species, sex is determined by specific chromosomes. How did researchers discover these so-called sex chromosomes? The path from the initial discovery of sex chromosomes ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise.

The chromosome theory of heredity, developed in 1902–1904, became one of the foundation stones of twentieth-century genetics. It is usually referred to as the Sutton–Boveri theory after Walter Sutton ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...