A full assembly of human chromosome 8 has now been completed. Its DNA content and arrangement are of interest in primate and human evolution, in several immune and developmental disorders, and in ...

With Men's Y Chromosome, Size Really May Not Matter : Shots - Health News The string of genes that make a man a man used to be much bigger, and some geneticists say it may be wasting away. Back ...

Y Chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve aren’t the first human male and female but instead represent the common ancestors of the modern Y chromosome and modern mitochondrial DNA.

Cancer cells with extra chromosomes depend on those chromosomes for tumor growth, a new study reveals, and eliminating them prevents the cells from forming tumors. The findings, said the ...

Human cells typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes; extra chromosomes are an anomaly known as aneuploidy. “If you look at normal skin or normal lung tissue, for example, 99.9% of the cells will have ...