In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science fiction, but scientists have actually done it-and made it work. In ...

X-linked specific diseases usually affect only males, simply because they are hemizygous for X chromosome alleles. The fact that females carry two X chromosomes, and therefore two different ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

Created with Sketch. X chromosomes are expressed differently depending on whether you are male or female. Since females have two X chromosomes, one may be expressed, or manifest in the phenotype ...

The enigmatic Y chromosome has a tendency to disappear from cells with age. Now, research is revealing the long-term impacts ...

Johan Gibcus, PhD, assistant professor of systems biology and co-first author on the study explained, “We found that these machines extrude loops and as they do so they race along the chromosomes at ...

Naturally occurring dicentric chromosomes allow examination of complex cis–acting effects that regulate kinetochore function and chromosome segregation. Dicentric chromosomes with well ...

For the past 40 or 50 years, researchers searched for the trigger behind sex-biased autoimmunity. “We have thought that the X chromosome had something to do with the autoimmune predominance. This ...