When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb. It depends on ...

The platypus and chicken have vastly different sex chromosome systems to humans—which can give us valuable insights into our own bodies work. UNSW Sydney researchers have made new discoveries of ...

A human cell undergoing cell division where the goal is to align duplicated chromosomes and deliver a perfect set to the two new “daughter cells.” Image courtesy Ben Black. HACs have wide potential ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...