Aging men often lose the Y chromosome in a growing number of their cells—and it may be far more dangerous than once believed.

South Korea’s national radiation research institute screened 80 North Korean defectors for signs of past radiation exposure ...

Scientists now believe the Y chromosome, found in males, plays a bigger role in health and aging than once thought. Earlier, ...

Microtubules, the dynamic filaments that form the cell's internal scaffolding, have long been viewed as mere passive ...

The human Y chromosome, the determinant of male sex, has finally been completely sequenced. What it unveils could prove crucial to understanding the Y chromosome’s puzzling origins, and — pertinently ...

Loss of the Y chromosome in circulating blood cells rises with age and is associated with increased heart attack risk, even ...

Background Chromosome 19 is the most gene-dense chromosome in the human genome, with a high frequency of segmental ...

Conventional investigations of the genetic contributors to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk and progression have ignored the role of the X-chromosome, primarily due to technical analysis limitations. To ...

A quarter of North Korean defectors from regions near the northeastern Punggye-ri nuclear test site have shown chromosome ...

In a new article published Aug. 23 in Nature, scientists with the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium—a group of researchers affiliated with the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National ...