Researchers are investigating the potential of CRISPR in relation to Down syndrome.

New research is shedding light on the biological mechanisms that may help explain why systemic lupus erthyematosus (SLE) and ...

One chromosome from the mother, one chromosome from the father: For us humans and the vast majority of animal species, having a double set of chromosomes is the standard. Two complete sets of ...

Women age differently from men when it comes to health—particularly in conditions like cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia and Parkinson's. Unlike men, who carry ...

Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, but an mRNA injection that ...

For genes that are turned on, the gene expression level would double with two X chromosomes, triple with three X chromosomes, and so on. When the researchers looked at chromosomes other than X with ...

For decades, the Y chromosome — one of the two human sex chromosomes — has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure. Now, this elusive ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...