Non-Africans carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes — yet there's one chromosome where DNA from our ancient cousins ...

"In some places in our genome, we're more Neanderthal than we are human," Joshua Akey, a professor of integrative genomics at ...

The Y chromosome is also the smaller of the pair. The sex chromosomes are thought to have first evolved in mammals around 180 ...

Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome Scientists have recently discovered thousands of active RNA ...

The above representative microscope images showcase ultra-fine bridges, a kind of abnormal link between chromosomes that causes catastrophic genetic instability. These bridges, composed of entangled ...

The development of patrilineal social systems during the Neolithic period, where children inherit their father's lineage, ...

were at the origin of the loss of genetic diversity of the Y chromosome. The results of this study also provide new hypotheses on human social organization in the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Working with human breast and lung cells, scientists say they have charted a molecular pathway that can lure cells down a hazardous path of duplicating their genome too many times, a hallmark of ...

A study in mice suggests how chromosome inactivation may protect girls from a type of autism disorder inherited from their father's X chromosome. Females inherit two copies of the X chromosome ...

In the first of four scientific tours of the heart, Prof Michael Shattock of King's College London tells the story of a single heartbeat A study at a US Buddhist retreat suggests eastern relaxation ...