entertainment -WSS

entertainment

author：fashion 2025-10-02 23:31:14 - browse：9

This image depicts a karyotype in hues of purple. -- health coverage from STAT — A karyotype, or chromosomal profile CDC

Two years ago, when an international team of scientists announced it had finally sequenced and assembled the first fully complete human genome, including previously unmappable regions, Melissa Wilson was ecstatic. She reached out to Adam Phillippy, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and a leader of the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium to congratulate him on the accomplishment. And to ask the question she was almost too excited to utter: “And the Y?”

Wilson is an evolutionary geneticist at Arizona State University. For the past 10 years, her lab has been prying and probing into the origins of so-called sex chromosomes — the unnumbered, asymmetrical pair that in the human species go by the designation of X and Y. It has been a somewhat lonely corner of the DNA-studying community. For decades, researchers dismissed the Y chromosome as a “genetic wasteland,” a graveyard where genes (and careers) go to die.

That has to do, in part, with the Y chromosome’s unique evolutionary history. At the dawn of mammals, X and Y were just like every other pair of chromosomes — identical in length and shape and number of genes.

Unlock this article by subscribing to STAT+ and enjoy your first 30 days free!

GET STARTED Log In

Previous article： How to save PrEP access — and even expand it
Next article： Maui's cultural, historic landmarks damaged in the devastating wildfires

entertainment

WSS

FDA panel issues narrow recommendation for Covid vaccine booster doses

Lung cancer screening guidelines updated for cigarette smokers

STAT Readout: The latest on Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Covid shots

Wegovy’s successful heart trial raises vital question about weight loss

Medicare must police algorithms in Medicare Advantage, Dems say

Emergent cuts jobs, executive role in business shake

leisure time

entertainment

hotspot

ChatGPT in medicine: STAT answers readers' burning questions

Anavex keeps shifting the goalposts in its clinical trials

Wildfire smoke exposes gaps in outdoor worker protections

In same hospitals, Black patients receive fewer opioids than white patients

Sports medicine is finally prioritizing gender equality

Police still searching for prisoner who escaped from NYC hospital

Trump demands the U.S. pay no more for drugs than other countries … again

Listen: Merck v. USA, the best of ASCO, and Leqembi at the FDA

Biden outlines 'new path' to provide student loan relief after Supreme Court rejection

How to convince healthy people to buy insurance

entertainment

Prime Medicine says its gene editing passes test in monkeys

In Gaza, a nonprofit 3D prints tourniquets and stethoscopes

All of Us, NIH's precision medicine initiative, gets a big boost

Medicare must police algorithms in Medicare Advantage, Dems say

Q&A: Figuring out how songbirds sing may lead to better understanding of how humans learn

Medicare must police algorithms in Medicare Advantage, Dems say

hotspot

entertainment

entertainment

explore