In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years later in a commentary, "is running out of time." The male-determining sex ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The 23 rd chromosome base pair contains what are known as our sex chromosomes. For most females, this ...

Is it possible that Y Chromosomes might actually disappear from genetic code? What would happen to species as we know them? We're generally taught that chromosomes determine an animal's sex, but turns ...

University of Arizona Cancer Center researchers will study the potential effects of the loss of the Y chromosome in the development and progression of bladder cancer thanks to a grant of up to $6.5 ...

Two new studies of the evolutionary history of the Y chromosome show that, contrary to popular (if not scientific) belief, the male is not at risk of dying out. The Y chromosome which, among other ...

Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, including a pair of sex chromosomes (typically XX for females, and XY for males). Chromosomes contain hundreds to thousands of genes, which are sections of DNA ...

Men lose their Y chromosome as they age-and it could be silently triggering heart attacks. Researchers tracking over 5,000 ...

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between ...