One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Chromosome 2 is the second largest of the 46 chromosomes found in human cells. Chromosome 2 spans 243 million base pairs and makes up around 8% of the total DNA present within our cells. The base ...

A game-changining achievement in genome science has identified over 140,000 distinct DNA loops in our cells, providing chromosome fold resolution that is among the best ever created. In this ongoing ...

A research paper highlights how spiny rats have developed a new male-determining gene. A recent study suggests a surprising future for human reproduction: the Y chromosome, which is crucial for ...

Spatial interactions between RNA, architectural factors and chromatin have essential roles during X-chromosome inactivation. CTCF is a versatile factor that regulates chromosome counting, allelic ...

Chromosome 3 is the third largest of the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in humans. It spans nearly 200 million base pairs, the building blocks of DNA, making up around 6.5% to 7% of the genetic ...

The sex we're assigned at birth depends largely on a genetic flip of the coin: X or Y? Two X chromosomes and you (almost always) develop ovaries. An X and a Y chromosome? Testes. These packages of ...

A study revealed that the Y chromosome, which determines male sex, is degenerating and may vanish in a few million years. Research on Sry-deficient Amami spiny rats, which lost the Y chromosome but ...

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

Researchers have created male mice with no trace of a Y chromosome, supposedly the defining hallmark of being male. Reproductive biologist Monika Ward of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and ...