If you follow anything related to genetics, you’re probably thinking that is old news, as the first draft was already published in 2000, but actually there were still missing parts. Now, thanks to new sequencing technologies the human genome is completely sequenced. In the journal Science, six papers published back-to-back explain how this was achieved….

Like father like son. We have all heard it one time or another. The layman explanation to hereditary characters. Whether the cause is genetic inheritance or the effect of growing up in a certain environment, is quite something else. When talking about the origin of intelligence, there are always discussions. Even though there is undoubtedly…

In humans, biological sex is determined by the chromosomes X or Y. People having a Y chromosome are typically male, as this small chromosome –which evolution seems to be doing away with– contains a gene which determines the formation of male sexual organs in the embryo. However, despite its small size, the Y chromosome is…

Believe it to not, little worms (C.elegans) are an useful tool for researchers studying aging. Specially, the genetics of aging. A recently released article in Cell Reports shows that gene modification in two specific cellular pathways drives 500% life extension in worms. Why worms? IF you want to kow the answer to this question, go…

That female fertility is not stable during a woman’s lifetime is nothing new, but now a new study in the journal Science has found an explanation to its inverted U shape: chromosome errors! So it turns out female fertility might be limited by chromosome errors. Let’s look at the findings from the study in MappingIgnorance.org