Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have demonstrated an intriguing new variation on the CRISPR gene-editing system, which involves fixing a mutation on one chromosome by ...

Some physical traits that differ between sexes are known to be linked to certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in chromosomes other than the X and Y chromosomes, with each SNP representing a ...

A research team led by geneticist Jeannie Lee at Harvard Medical School, cell biologist Jeanne Lawrence at UMass Chan Medical ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make ...

Genes that are switched on or off in the human brain differ between men and women. Moreover, these differences are not ...

The human Y chromosome, responsible for determining male sex, finally has gotten an end-to-end examination. The Y chromosome is the smallest of the human chromosomes. “In the old time, people thought ...

A new analysis of individual brain cells across several human brain regions reveals subtle but widespread differences in gene activity between male and female brains. This may help explain why some ...

Females and males differ in many ways and yet they share the same genome. The only exception is the male Y chromosome. Using beetles as a study system, new research shows that despite of the Y ...