When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things - including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother's womb. It depends on ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things—including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother's womb. It depends on the ...

In the 1980s, scientists knew little about the X and Y chromosomes. What they did understand was that every cell in the body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. Each of these pairs is similar, except ...

During meiosis, the cell division process central to sexual reproduction, all chromosomes must figure out where to destroy the protein cohesin—the molecular glue holding chromosomes together—and where ...

Meiotic recombination is a specialised process in which programmed DNA double-strand breaks initiate the exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes. This exchange forms crossovers ...

Sex chromosomes are chromosomes, or packages of DNA, that are found inside the nucleus of all of your cells. There are two different kinds: X and Y, which determine whether you’re biologically male ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb. It depends on ...