Wade Jones will celebrate his 12th birthday in two weeks. So May is always a special month for the Monticello native and his ...

The humble Y chromosome may seem simple, but it’s responsible for determining the male sex. And the bad news… It’s degenerating in humans and may disappear in a few million years, which could lead to ...

Katsuhiko Hayashi, a genome scientist at Osaka University, turned that tenet on its head last year when he reprogrammed a ...

The development of patrilineal social systems during the Neolithic period, where children inherit their father's lineage, ...

Some families call it as a test of faith, while others deem it a curse. Spinocerebellar ataxia 4 (SCA4), a rare but ...

Mia Polacek may not be able to speak with her mouth, but the 4-year-old from Round Lake has a voice, thanks to technology ...

The Lemba view is that one can be indigenous to more than one place, and that more than one people can be indigenous to a ...

A study in mice suggests how chromosome inactivation may protect girls from a type of autism disorder inherited from their ...

Can men blame their mothers if they’re colorblind? Yes, in most cases, but it’s not always as black and white as that.

Females have a much greater risk of developing an autoimmune disease than males do. Eighty percent of autoimmune disease patients are female, and specific disorders can have an even more lopsided ...

Spinocerebellar ataxia 4 is a severe progressive movement disease that can begin as early as the late teens. Now, a ...

The genus Musa, encompassing approximately 70 herbaceous species, is predominantly found in the tropical and subtropical ...