Many explanations have been put forward: men take more risks or smoke more, oestrogen is protective against health conditions, two X chromosomes are better than one… the list goes on.

Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and Linköping University in Sweden have discovered how cells prevent their chromosomes from mistakenly fusing together. Two proteins ...

A microscopic piece of genetic material known as the Y chromosome made headlines last week. It is nothing new or rare; every man has one in practically every cell, or he would not be a man.

This clip will be relevant for teaching English Literature at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC in England and Wales and CCEA ...

A STUDY of isolated chromosomes has shown that they contain desoxyribonucleic acid, histone and another protein of an entirely different character from a histone 1. This protein remains as a ...

Atoms are the building blocks of everything. Atoms can form strong bonds with each other, making molecules. Symbols and formulae Letters from the alphabet are used to represent chemical elements ...

It involves a lack of part or all of a second sex chromosome in some or all cells. The symptoms of Turner syndrome (TS) can vary widely from one person to the next. People with Turner syndrome are ...

Formal vision and hearing tests have been normal. A routine chromosome analysis was normal, as was a molecular study for fragile X. The patient was found to have a de novo cryptic deletion of 9p ...