Donald Trump, who has returned to the U.S. presidency, has declared that there are only two genders, male and female, and ...

This commentary is a repost from "Sex on Wednesdays" by Martha Kempner on Substack. Find her other articles on The Queen...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could ...

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...

What stands out the most about this ancient cephalopod sex chromosome is how little the chromosome has changed over time.

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

Mitosis orchestrates eukaryotic cell division, maintaining genetic fidelity and playing a key role in development, tissue homeostasis, and cancer progression.

Macquarie University researchers, alongside an international team, have achieved a significant milestone in synthetic biology by completing the final chromosome of the world's first synthetic yeast ...

Because advanced maternal age is associated with an increased risk of fetal chromosome abnormalities, the ages of the women in the two groups were evaluated. Age data were available for only ...

A California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides). (Gerald Corsi/Canva) We humans rely on an XY system, wherein two X chromosomes create the default female body plan, while the presence of a Y ...

The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...