A five-year-old girl has been diagnosed with a rare genetic condition which only affects females. Sophie Brown, 31, and her ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance.

For sexual reproduction to yield healthy offspring, newly generated oocytes—immature egg cells—must receive the correct amount of DNA after cell division. This process of segregating chromosomes ...

There have been girl gremlins, a Yoda without a Y chromosome, and Lady Slimer. Much to the pain and pleasure of the femme Pinhead from the Hellraiser reboot, genre franchises are gender-fluid, ...

Cardiff University researchers discovered how a particularly severe type of DNA damage occurs, giving fresh insight into mutation mechanisms that contribute to cancer and inherited genetic diseases.

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

Recent DNA analysis determined that it's not actually the case that one in 200 men today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

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

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.

The Trojan male method relies on genetics to collapse invasive populations. Unlike wild males that have one X and one Y ...

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