When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Humans typically have 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs. One of these pairs determines biological sex at the time of conception. Males usually have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. The ...

Normally, an extra pair of chromosomes would be considered dangerous. But what if we could design our own? According to biologists, we could create custom-built chromosomes to fix a variety of health ...

Recently developed genomic technologies have shed light on the genomic composition of the ancient Y chromosomes of some primates and Drosophila melanogaster and have shown that Y chromosomes in these ...