Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises—shedding new light on ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.

A study explains how broken DNA during cell division can trigger chromoanasynthesis when two repair pathways combine, causing ...

When closely related species mate, their offspring sometimes survive but cannot reproduce. This pattern often affects males ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Robertsonian chromosomes (ROB) are a type of structurally variant chromosome that is created when two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. Found commonly in nature, these chromosomes are ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago.

The cloudberry, a popular northern dessert berry, reveals a surprising genetic origin after a study deciphers its complex evolution.

But the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, shows “that whenever Neanderthals and modern humans have mated, ...

For sexual reproduction to yield healthy offspring, newly generated oocytes—immature egg cells—must receive the correct amount of DNA after cell division. This process of segregating chromosomes ...