Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has confounded doctors from the moment they gave the condition its name. In people with ...

Doctors stumbled upon a type rarer than “golden blood”—and suspect more patients carry the bizarre genetic anomaly.

DNA does not float freely in the cell. Instead, it is wrapped around histone proteins to form structures called nucleosomes.

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...

This study introduces TEAM (Targeted Elimination and Microcell-Mediated Transfer), a novel programmable platform that enables ...

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. But evidence has ...

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. But evidence has ...

Here’s a quick reality check: ice cream sales go up in summer, and so do drownings. But no one thinks Ben & Jerry's is a silent killer. It’s correlation, not causation. Yet this same logical ...

Women tend to live longer than men. There are traditional explanations: Men smoke more. They drink more. They tend to engage in riskier behavior. But the fact that this lifespan gap holds true ...

Men who have lost their Y chromosome from a significant number of their immune cells are more likely to have narrow blood vessels, a key contributor to heart disease, according to a study of more than ...

Thousands of years ago, the number of men drastically dropped compared to women—and the timing aligns with the onset of the Younger Dryas. Some now wonder if a global cataclysm reshaped the human gene ...