For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

That genetic traces of the original population disappear completely is unusual, especially in South America,” said geneticist ...

Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.

Archaeological sites such as the Franchthi Cave on the Argolid peninsula have provided evidence of continuous human occupation ... carried mitochondrial DNA haplogroups, such as U5 and K, among the ...

Scientists have long suspected that their orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding somewhere on the X chromosome of domestic cats. Male cats – just like male humans – have an X and a Y ...

When cancer cells in male patients and immune cells in their tumors both lose the Y chromosome, those patients tend to ...

Losing the Y chromosome seems to make cancer cells more aggressive in men and the phenomenon may even spread between cells.

A new paper published in Nature on June 4 shines light on how an enigmatic part of male aging—the loss of Y chromosomes—is ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona have unveiled that coordinated Y chromosome loss in both cancer cells and immune ...

A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how ...