Olympic boxing gold medalist Imane Khelif has voiced her commitment to perseverance in response to the recent surge of hatred ...

After an abnormal NIPT finding in a pregnant woman, a maternal-fetal medicine doctor orders a second NIPT, against recommendations.

Imane Khelif, the Olympic boxer who was at the center of controversy surrounding her gender and her gold medal boxing victory ...

See why the ovary − often reduced to its reproductive role − menopause, age and estrogen affect a woman’s health throughout ...

Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have discovered a previously unknown protein that is central to plant reproduction.

“While longitudinal transitioning studies of transgender athletes are urgently needed, these results should caution against ...

They also found that after the extra chromosome was removed, genes tied to nervous system development were more active and ...

A new study in Nature shows that when pregnant mice don’t have enough iron, their (usually male) fetuses with a Y sex ...

In aging female mice, genes on the previously silenced second X chromosome become active again. This mechanism might also influence women's health later in life. Unlike men, who carry one X and one Y ...

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Tuesday that the track and field’s governing body has approved the introduction of cheek swabs and dry blood-spot tests for female athletes in order ...

The research team discovered that this supposedly dormant X chromosome becomes activated later in life. This activation does not involve the entire chromosome but results in the expression of more ...

The experiments were done on 20-month-old female mice, an age likened to 65-year-old humans. In one group, the researchers engineered the extra X chromosome to remain silent, and yet, found it to ...