The court's 17-judge highest chamber says Semenya had her rights to a fair hearing violated at Switzerland's Supreme Court ...

A top European court on Thursday said a Swiss court did not give South African runner Caster Semenya a fair trial over ...

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new international study presented today at the 41 st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) reveals that IVF cycles involving male partners over the age ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are now tackling the next logical — yet inherently controversial — step: ...

Preliminary results of chromosome studies on cultured umbilical-cord-blood leukocytes from a consecutive series of 2159 infants born during a year indicated that gross chromosome abnormalities were ...

Another type of sex-chromosome mosaic was reported by Jacobs and her co-workers 11 in which XXX and XO cells coexisted, carrying 47 and 45 chromosomes respectively.

The human Y chromosome, which contains the SRY gene responsible for male development, has been degenerating over time.