Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that ...

Researchers at a lab in Kansas City believe they have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding infertility.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago.

The Y chromosome is among the smallest in the human body and carries the fewest genes. Researchers are paying renewed ...

New techniques to detect Y chromosome genes show frequent loss of the Y in tissues of older men. The increase with age is ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Ludwig Center uncovered new evidence that extra copies of a ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental condition that can be diagnosed at any age, although the symptoms tend to appear in the first two years of a patient's life. ASD can ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...