When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In a new study, scientists probed the ways in which the X chromosome may change with age and ...

New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflammation in the female brain, ...

The researchers also found that the sex most involved in raising offspring tends to have a greater lifespan. In longer-lived ...

Females carry two X chromosomes, after inheriting one from each parent. In order to stop serious problems from arising, cells of the body silence one of those X chromosomes in a process known as X ...

Women across the globe consistently outlive men by approximately five years on average, a phenomenon that has intrigued medical researchers for generations. Beyond simply living longer, women also ...

The answer – if you didn’t guess from the picture, above – is the Y chromosome. This is part of human DNA that makes foetuses ...

A team of US researchers has identified a gene on the X chromosome that may explain why women are more prone to brain-related ...

Women are twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD) and multiple sclerosis (MS), and two-thirds experience ...

Autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), are more common in women than men, and scientists are still trying to figure out why. One reason may be related to the number of X ...

New study explains the gender gap in Alzheimer's rates, with scientists identifying chromosomal differences and hormonal ...

The cells of female mammals randomly inactivate one X chromosome to keep gene dosage the same as in males. Does it matter which X becomes inactive? Surprisingly, it does, according to new research ...

In 2019, a group of researchers in Japan published a study that promised the potential to revolutionize sex selection for ...