Modern genetics reveals that over 50 genes across many chromosomes—not just X and Y—govern sex development. The term “sex ...

New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of ...

What we do know is that hormones like testicular androgens play a massive role in causing men to become taller than women ...

That changed in 2014, when Swedish scientists showed that Y loss in blood cells correlates with how long men live – those who have Y loss in some of their cells die five years sooner. Many further ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

New study explains the gender gap in Alzheimer's rates, with scientists identifying chromosomal differences and hormonal ...

In males, each cell in the body usually contains one X and one Y chromosome. Losing the Y chromosome in immune cells in the blood is a common, nonhereditary genetic change in men that is often ...

New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflammation in the female brain, offering insight into why women are disproportionately affected by conditions such ...

With 100 days to go until the Winter Olympics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has begun the complicated and ...

A new scientific study has revealed that hundreds of genes in the human brain operate differently between males and females, ...