In the small Tuscan town of Vinci, inside church tombs that have held bones for centuries, researchers recently extracted ...

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Different types of cell division failure shape whether duplicated cells survive, remain stable, or lead to cancer.

A new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers has found that cancer cells are better able to resist treatments when they ...

Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in every cell of the body. People with ...

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A new study sheds light on how organisms have evolved to address imbalances in sex chromosomes. The study looks at a species of softshell turtle, but the results could help to illuminate an important ...

A genome sequence for the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea reveals a chromosome that might be primed to become a sex chromosome. The finding offers a remarkable chance to study the evolution of sex ...