New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of ...

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply—and can contribute to ...

A global study of over 1,100 species reveals an evolutionary reason why females consistently live longer than males.

Across the animal kingdom, males and females rarely live the same length of time and this difference has fascinated ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that unravels a century-old mystery about cats, scientists have identified the peculiar genetic ...

Doctors at the Central Military Hospital 108 have successfully performed surgery on a 21-year-old patient with a rare genetic ...

OLYMPIC boxer Lin Yu-ting won her return to the ring by knocking out her opponent in just 94 SECONDS. Lin, 29, won gold in the featherweight division at Paris 2024 despite being disqualified from ...

An X chromosome gene appears to drive inflammation in the brain, and may explain why women are more likely to develop MS, per a study.

Therefore, female birds have a greater genetic vulnerability, which explains why males tend to live longer in this class. But ...

New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflammation in the female brain, offering insight into why women are disproportionately affected by conditions such ...