"Chromosome 7 has long been of interest to the medical community. Besides containing many genes that are crucial to development, this chromosome also holds the gene for cystic fibrosis and is ...

So how does the Y chromosome acquire new genes and, more broadly, how does it evolve? Scientists working with Drosophila accepted that the species’ Y chromosome had only gained 7 genes over the past ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute studying male mice engineered with different Y chromosome deletions have uncovered which genes on the mouse Y chromosome regulate the development of ...

Your Kell blood type is determined by the KEL gene on chromosome 7. Much like the Rh antigens, you can be either positive or negative for the antigens. There are 38 Kell antigens, but the two most ...

When X-linked genes evade silencing on the “inactive” chromosome in XX cells, some protect women from diseases such as cancer, but others seem to promote conditions such as autoimmunity. Amber Dance ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...