The Y chromosome, which determines the sex of human and other mammal babies, is slowly degenerating and may disappear within a few million years, raising fears of extinction. However, a 2022 study ...

Scientists have fully sequenced the Y chromosome for the first time, uncovering information that could have implications for the study of male infertility and other health problems.

It’s among the smallest of human chromosomes, but the complex structure of the Y chromosome has made it notoriously resistant to efforts to fully decipher it. Now, the first-ever complete ...

Despite its macho connotations, the Y chromosome is among the tiniest of the 46 chromosomes in the human genome. It makes up only 2 percent of a human cell’s total DNA.

Scientists have finally filled the gaps in the sequence of the human Y chromosome, 20 years after the first draft of its DNA code was published. The work reveals a complete catalog of the genes in ...

The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team of more than 100 researchers around the world, including ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

What is chromosome 1? Chromosome 1 is the largest human chromosome, made up of around 249 million nucleotide base pairs and representing approximately 8% of the entire DNA content within a human cell.

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

Scientists have completed the first full sequence of a human Y chromosome, completing the set of end-to-end human chromosomes and helping researchers to better understand human reproduction, evolution ...

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 ...