The male Y chromosome has disappeared from a species of rat, leading scientists to investigate how humans might also lose ours in the near future.

The Y chromosome determines male fertility, including sperm production, and determines paternal lineage for tracking inheritance and ancestry.

New analyses of the human Y chromosome reveal millions of new bases and different locations for the same gene in different people.

Twenty years after the Human Genome Project was declared complete, the Y chromosome has been fully sequenced for the first time. Most people have 22 pairs of chromosomes plus two sex chromosomes ...

Why is the Y chromosome disappearing? The Y chromosome has seen significant changes over the course of human evolution. "In comparison to the X, the Y is tiny.

The researchers pitted their complete Y chromosome sequence, named T2T-Y, against the most widely used reference genome's Y chromosome parts, which are riddled with stretches of absent code.

The Y chromosome can disappear over time in human males, which may introduce a number of health problems. While the exact trigger for such degeneration is unknown, environmental factors can play a ...

New research reveals rapid changes in the Y chromosome across humans and Great Apes, uncovering significant genetic variability and evolutionary insights.

In a milestone achievement, a whole chromosome has been created from scratch by scientists for the first time ever. The tRNA Neochromosome is a man-made chromosome of the common baker's yeast ...

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 ...