How do scientists find their way around a chromosome? With chromosome maps called idiograms, researchers can pinpoint the locations of genes and locate abnormal gene forms. Aa Aa Aa Most ...

Discover how researchers identified an octopus' ancient sex chromosomes and why their genetic history is such a mystery.

The research suggest octopus and other cephalopods, like squid and cuttlefish, all rely on the ancient chromosome to ...

With the publication of Ohno's watershed monograph 1, molecular genetic characterization of the mammalian sex chromosomes has radically altered our view of X-chromosome inactivation and the ...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could ...

Why are the human sex chromosomes called “X” and “Y,” while the other 22 chromosomes are identified only by numbers? The answer begins in the late 1800s, when insect gonad cells, whose large ...

Artificial chromosomes are essentially miniature versions of real chromosomes that can replicate alongside their natural counterparts in host cells. They have the potential to be “incredibly useful ...