One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Chromosome 2 is the second largest of the 46 chromosomes found in human cells. Chromosome 2 spans 243 million base pairs and makes up around 8% of the total DNA present within our cells. The base ...

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years later in a commentary, "is running out of time." The male-determining sex ...

A game-changining achievement in genome science has identified over 140,000 distinct DNA loops in our cells, providing chromosome fold resolution that is among the best ever created. In this ongoing ...

A research paper highlights how spiny rats have developed a new male-determining gene. A recent study suggests a surprising future for human reproduction: the Y chromosome, which is crucial for ...

The good news is two branches of rodents have already lost their Y chromosome and have lived to tell the tale. A new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows how the spiny rat has ...

There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human body. This includes 22 pairs of autosomal or somatic chromosomes that are common to both men and women and one chromosome that differs according to what ...

Researchers have created male mice with no trace of a Y chromosome, supposedly the defining hallmark of being male. Reproductive biologist Monika Ward of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and ...

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

Spatial interactions between RNA, architectural factors and chromatin have essential roles during X-chromosome inactivation. CTCF is a versatile factor that regulates chromosome counting, allelic ...