Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

Taking Vitamin D supplements could help slow biological aging, a new study suggests. As you get older, your telomeres, the genetic sequences at the tip of your chromosomes, shorten as a normal part of ...

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring amino—the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites ...

Non-invasive Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy is a novel technique used in in-vitro fertilisation to assess the ...

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

Many plants, and a few other organisms, can expedite diversification even further by doubling their number of chromosomes.

Turner syndrome can be detected if there is growth retardation, heart defects, reproductive problems and learning difficulties.

Discover how hemophilia A affects blood clotting, its genetic patterns, warning signs, advanced treatment options, and ...