Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that ...

When closely related species mate, their offspring sometimes survive but cannot reproduce. This pattern often affects males ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute studying male mice engineered with different Y chromosome deletions have uncovered which genes on the mouse Y chromosome regulate the development of sperm ...

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves revealed a provocative calculation in regard to the human Y chromosome, later mentioning that it "is running out of time." Over the past 300 million years, ...

Novel amplicons on the short arm of chromosome 7 identified using high resolution array CGH contain over expressed genes in addition to EGFR in glioblastoma multiforme. Deletion at chromosome band ...

Genes do not exist in isolation. Like beads on a string, they sit next to each other on long DNA molecules called chromosomes. So far, little has been known about how the position of a gene on a ...