Police in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, sparked controversy after announcing plans to collect men's blood samples to update an ...

The researchers also found that the sex most involved in raising offspring tends to have a greater lifespan. In longer-lived ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published an analysis that reveals new functions of the ...

Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction. But researchers are struggling to translate promising ...

Haploid plants, which carry only a single set of chromosomes, are typically sterile, making them valuable but difficult to ...

This pocket-sized new spider is rocking a unique look. Near perfectly split down the middle, its left legs are dark orange ...

Among mammals, females generally live longer. The recent comparative study examined 528 mammal species in zoos and found that ...

Across 1,000 species, males die younger than females—even in zoos. A global study shows biology, not just lifestyle, drives ...

But men, with only a single X chromosome, have no such reinforcements. The same sort of problem may happen with a male’s unpaired Y chromosome. In men, “if there’s any deleterious mutations or any ...

Abstract: Noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) has become a routine screening method to detect autosomal chromosomal aberrations. Predicting sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs) is more difficult due to the ...

World Athletics is within "touching distance" of carrying out gene testing on all female athletes before the start of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Rules requiring all athletes in the ...