Over the past few decades, advances in hematology have illuminated how a delicate balance between stem cell self-renewal and ...

And you can see where you stand with the Daily Mail's new interactive tools. On Thursday, the CDC released the country's ...

Across the world, women consistently outlive men, a pattern that shows up in national life expectancy tables, hospital wards, ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can reliably reveal these hidden structural variants and lead to new ...

Genes are segments of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) that are located inside every human cell. The DNA inside each cell is tightly coiled in structures called chromosomes. Each chromosome contains a ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. However, there is some evidence that the Y ...

Researchers have sequenced the complete X and Y chromosomes of several great ape species, revealing significant evolutionary variations, especially in the rapidly evolving Y chromosome. This study, ...