Research reveals that five DNA letters can switch chromatin between fluid and solid-like states, influencing gene ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

The vampire squid’s massive genome is revealing a deep evolutionary link once thought lost to time. You won’t believe where ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

CpG density and epigenetic modification state modulate DNA mechanics, altering its intrinsic compatibility with nucleosome formation.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.