From fighting diseases to determining why you can't stand cilantro, genetics are the silent architects of your life. Here's everything you need to know ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

Thus, in her experiments, McClintock observed several fundamental properties of chromosome biology ... the experiments that revealed the actual structure of telomeres. Nature provided the model ...

Female mammals typically carry two X chromosomes — one from each parent — and a new study suggests that the maternal X is linked to faster brain aging.

The new finding is published in Cell in an article titled, “ SMC motor proteins extrude DNA asymmetrically and can switch directions ,” and is key to understanding how these motors shape our genome ...

Researchers at the Crick identified Y chromosome genes essential for sperm development and fertility in mice. The findings reveal how gene deletions impact sperm production and shape, providing ...

Researchers have uncovered which genes on the Y chromosome regulate the development of sperm and impact fertility in male mice. This research could help us understand why some men don't produce enough ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Results prove that inversions can be generated in plants without causing further unwanted changes in the expression of genetic information.