Jackie Blankenship grew up thinking she had to hide who she is and lied about it for so long, but now she's finally embracing ...

Many more men than women suffer from color vision deficiency, which most commonly makes it difficult to tell the difference between red and green.

Research indicates women generally outlive men due to biological advantages. Genetics, hormones, and anatomical differences ...

The most common form of color blindness is red-green color blindness. This happens when people are born without the type of ...

By virtue of having a second X chromosome, women get two “doses” of a protective protein from a gene that only exists on this female sex chromosome. Some people, both male and female, have an ...

Durham, N.C. – The first comprehensive survey of gene activity in the X chromosomes of women has revealed an unexpected level of variation among individuals, according to new work by researchers ...

Women born with a rare condition that gives them a Y chromosome don't only look like women physically, they also have the same brain responses to visual sexual stimuli, a new study shows.

Experts have long known that women are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. They’re twice as likely to be ...

While men have one X and one Y chromosome, women have two X chromosomes. If all the genes on both X chromosomes were active, women would get an overdose of the proteins these genes code for.

Why do fewer women die of COVID? The answer could lie in the X chromosome's superpower A new study comes closer to figuring out why men die more often from viral infections ...

This complex then coats the X chromosome like some sort of form-fitting molecular bodysuit. In 2015, Chang and a group of other researchers published a paper cataloging the proteins forming the ...