Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) have identified how a key enzyme called ATR protects DNA from ...

A protein doctors routinely use to measure how aggressively tumors are growing may also help prevent the chromosome errors ...

(Dmitry Bayer/Getty Images) In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y ...

A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they have ...

Chromosomes carry genetic information for biological sex, which generally assigns women two X chromosomes and men XY ...

The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team of more than 100 researchers around the world, including ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Scientists have taken an important step forward in understanding the human genome - our genetic blueprint - by fully deciphering the enigmatic Y chromosome present in ...

The 23 rd chromosome base pair contains what are known as our sex chromosomes. For most females, this pair contains two X chromosomes, while for most males, it contains one X chromosome and one Y ...

For decades, the Y chromosome — one of the two human sex chromosomes — has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure. Now, this elusive ...

A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers has found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they ...