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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 ...

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The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...

Female mammals have a higher risk of developing autoimmune conditions such as lupus because extra copies of genes that are supposed to be permanently turned off get reactivated as they grow older, a ...

About 15% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and many other conceptions do not survive past the very early stages of ...

The X chromosome is associated with important measures of the brain in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in sex-specific ways, new research suggests. In a cohort study, differential gene expression ...

Researchers at the Crick have uncovered which genes on the Y chromosome regulate the development of sperm and impact fertility in male mice. This research could help us understand why some men don't ...