An article by Professor Darren Griffin and Dr Peter Ellis in the School of Biosciences for The Conversation UK has achieved more than 1 million reads. This places it within the top 0.2% of The Conversation articles by number of reads. It is also one of only 34 articles to hit the million mark.
Entitled ‘The Y chromosome is disappearing – so what will happen to men?‘, the article, which was published on 17 January, considers the future of ‘the only chromosome not necessary for life’. See the In The Media section (right) for other selected coverage.
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