From the column: "We now know that the chromosomes can combine in different ways and that gender identification is more than ...

Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people exist," argues one letter. Another: "We should be humbled by the gaps in our ...

There are some movies that are more pious, but, I think, less faithful to the drama of Catholicism,' said Vatican expert ...

Researchers have sequenced the genomes of Palmer amaranth and other pigweed species, uncovering key mechanisms behind ...

Ongoing imprecision in defining the autism spectrum will only impede progress in discovering the causes of the condition.

Another common cause of mental health problems in animals is daily stress. Animals held in captivity at zoos, farms or research labs may experience stress from sources such as traffic noises, ...

“It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.” “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at ...

A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order oversimplifies genetics, hormones and reproductive biology.

Gene editing techniques may one day allow for the removal of the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome, early ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup. Researchers at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Southwest Germany, have ...

Klinefelter syndrome is the most common sex chromosome disorder in men, affecting approximately one in 600 male births. The condition results from being born with an extra X chromosome, leading to low ...