Tending a garden is hard work. Imagine it from the plants' perspective. Each relies on fine-tuned genetic processes to pass ...

Delilah Ortega, 8, is a soloist in the choir at Fayetteville's School of Hope. She has also had 50 surgeries and is hard of ...

Three RIKEN researchers have shed light on the cellular mechanisms underlying chromosomal abnormalities that can cause miscarriages and congenital disorders such as Down syndrome.

The Y chromosome, which plays a crucial role in determining male sex in humans, is shrinking. Over the past 300 million years ...

Down Syndrome Awareness Month is recognized through October. Here's everything you need to know about the condition that ...

The well-established existence of sex differences in immune responses, including immune responses driven by T cells, cuts ...

In mammals, female (XX) and male (XY) cells exhibit sex chromosome dimorphism. To achieve dosage compensation of X-linked ...

About two-thirds of people with Alzheimer’s disease are women, yet due to the challenges in studying X chromosomes, a genetic ...

Chromosome rearrangements caused by chromothripsis occur in 30%-40% of all cancers and are commonly found in aggressive tumors such as sarcomas, glioblastomas, and pancreatic cancer. Chromothripsis ...

[44] Combining a limited karyotype with the more objective microarray data will allow for a clearer interpretation for any disease-causing chromosome abnormalities, if any, in the fetus undergoing ...

Typically, females have two X chromosomes (XX), and males have one X and one Y (XY). However, some males have an additional X chromosome (XXY), and some females have an extra X too (XXX). The ...

During her 20-week anatomy scan, doctors detected the congenital heart condition, an atrioventricular septal defect. While ...