The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...

Seattle biotech company Phase Genomics announced Wednesday that it received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants totaling $3.9 million. The funding, which runs for three years, will help pay ...

I still recall my disappointment one day in 2015. I received the tumor DNA sequencing results for one of my patients, whose cancer had spread from her lungs to her brain. I saw not a single genetic ...

About 15% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and many other conceptions do not survive past the very early stages of ...

As the human genome gradually yields up its secrets, scientists are finding some genetic events, such as rearrangements in chromosomes, are less random than they had previously thought. Originating as ...

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The Y chromosome is inherited only through the paternal line. Sons receive their Y chromosome exclusively from their father.