An X chromosome gene appears to drive inflammation in the brain, and may explain why women are more likely to develop MS, per ...

Nearly half of all babies born with Down syndrome face congenital heart defects, often involving serious malformations that ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that women’s relative longevity may be linked to having double X chromosomes.

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease.

In 2019, a group of researchers in Japan published a study that promised the potential to revolutionize sex selection for ...

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflammation in the female brain, ...

Cutting-edge gene editing technology could eradicate Down syndrome, according to Japanese scientists. Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in ...