Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises—shedding new light on ...

When closely related species mate, their offspring sometimes survive but cannot reproduce. This pattern often affects males ...

Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that ...

Researchers at a lab in Kansas City believe they have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding infertility.

A study explains how broken DNA during cell division can trigger chromoanasynthesis when two repair pathways combine, causing ...

The Y chromosome is among the smallest in the human body and carries the fewest genes. Researchers are paying renewed attention to its role in cancer—specifically, what happens when it vanishes.

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome ...

The human Y chromosome, the determinant of male sex, has finally been completely sequenced. What it unveils could prove crucial to understanding the Y chromosome’s puzzling origins, and — pertinently ...

The cloudberry, a popular northern dessert berry, reveals a surprising genetic origin after a study deciphers its complex evolution.

The biological necessity of the Y chromosome is undergoing a fundamental reassessment as evidence confirms its disappearance ...