Prenatal genetic tests can detect sex chromosome aberrations, but what happens after—for families and children—is anything but clear. When Ollie’s mother, Katie, was nine weeks pregnant, her ...
By enforcing a ‘sex test’ for athletes, the International Olympic Committee has reignited the debate about what a ‘level ...
Aging men often lose the Y chromosome in a growing number of their cells—and it may be far more dangerous than once believed.
The human genome is organised in 46 chromosomes, where all but the x and y chromosomes in men are present in two copies. This means that a person with a faulty gene on one chromosome most often has a ...
New research suggests that determining who qualifies as "female" in athletics is far more complex than commonly understood, raising significant implications for policies governing transgender athletes ...
THE existence of sub-diploid chromosome numbers in the somatic tissues of mammals has for long been a matter of controversy. This had centred around several earlier reports of the normal occurrence of ...