It's known that the Y chromosome, which confers male sex, plays a big role in development and health, despite its small size.

Upon entry into mitosis, loosely packed chromatin undergoes extensive compaction to form condensed chromosomes, which is essential for accurate segregation of genetic material and normal cell division ...

For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit ...

Human sex chromosomes originated from a pair of autosomes, the ordinary or non-sex chromosomes that contain the majority of our genome and come in identical pairs. That ancestral pair of autosomes ...

A new geo-metric method uses conserved DNA sequences as landmarks to quantify chromosomal structural variants across species.

OMC1 helps protect chromosome structure in eggs during their prolonged dormant stage. The findings suggest that impaired OMC1 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a milestone achievement, a whole chromosome has been created from ...

Many of today’s marine invertebrates, including sponges and jellyfish, have chromosomes with the same ancient structure they inherited from their primitive ancestors more than 600 million years ago, ...

In the 1930s, Hermann Muller was the first researcher to note that the ends of chromosomes had unique properties. Muller ...

Deep in the Guiana Shield, the northernmost stretch of the Brazilian Amazon, a team of cytogeneticists has been peering into the cells of some of the rainforest's most unassuming architects: the ...

A new study sheds light on how organisms have evolved to address imbalances in sex chromosomes. The study looks at a species of softshell turtle, but the results could help to illuminate an important ...

The Regenerative Medicine Project at our institute is advancing therapeutic strategies for various diseases by introducing a range of modifications to human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.