Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X ...

Each human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes that carry DNA within their nucleus. The X and Y chromosomes ... The X chromosome carries at least 150 genes linked to intelligence.

Nature asked the world’s largest health-research funders what they are doing to study a life stage experienced by half of humanity. Here is what some of them told us.

with various degrees of incomplete masculinisation were analysed in order to elucidate the cause of sexual ambiguity despite the presence of the SRY gene. PCR amplification of 20 Y chromosome specific ...

To put it in perspective, each of the lungfish’s 18 largest chromosomes is individually larger than the entire human genome. Despite its colossal size, the lungfish genome contains around 20,000 ...