Life begins with a quiet but precise choreography inside the nucleus. For decades, scientists believed that a newly ...

The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible to the cellular machinery that works to express the right genes at the ...

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team. DNA is widely accepted to be formed of two strands that wind around one ...

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally ...

He believed in creating “better” humans.

The field of regulatory genomics has evolved rapidly, with increasing complexity in understanding how genes are regulated within the three-dimensional ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the ...