For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another ...

Low iron levels can flip the genetic switch on a mouse's sex during development, causing XY embryos to grow female features.

Developmentally expressed genes play a fundamental role in the formation of a wide range of organs. The Y chromosome-located ...

A human’s sex is genetically determined. One of our 23 pairs of chromosomes carries genes that determine the embryo’s sex; ...

Scientists, for the first time, have shown that external factors can play a role in altering the sex that a mammal is born as ...

One-size-fits-all hats are okay, but one-size-fits-all medical treatments don't cut it. A new study shows that drug treatment ...

We’ve seen it play out repeatedly. If you dare to say biological men don’t belong in women’s sports then prepare for the pile ...

Join Deloitte Digital leaders as they delve into the current state of the industry and discuss the future of customer engagement for pharmaceutical companies.

I have just ­returned from the holiday of a lifetime in Switzerland. To view the Matterhorn in ­brilliant sunshine was breathtaking. What struck me most of all was the amazing engineering feats ...

How spatial gene expression patterns are orchestrated by enhancers is not fully elucidated. Here the authors present a computational framework called eSpatial revealing a “spatial enhancer code ...