When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb. It depends on ...

The platypus and chicken have vastly different sex chromosome systems to humans—which can give us valuable insights into our own bodies work. UNSW Sydney researchers have made new discoveries of ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain “selfish” genes cheat the normal rules of inheritance by destroying rival sperm cells.

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance.

A study explains how broken DNA during cell division can trigger chromoanasynthesis when two repair pathways combine, causing ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we cover the science of rainbows and why double rainbows are always mirror images. Then we talk about mysterious, yet super common, chromosomes called ...

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 ...

A human cell undergoing cell division where the goal is to align duplicated chromosomes and deliver a perfect set to the two new “daughter cells.” Image courtesy Ben Black. HACs have wide potential ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...