The human immune system is finely tuned to detect and destroy viral threats. But this same defense system can misfire. When ...

Breastfeeding may influence how children’s genes work later through small biological changes after birth, according to a new ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify ...

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber—linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret about our DNA: it’s not a static blueprint, but a constantly shifting, folding structure that helps control how genes turn on and off. Researchers at the ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that temporarily disabling a protein complex that organizes DNA into loops ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular ...

Synthetic DNA's incorporation into electronics is changing neuromorphic computing's methodology and is the new way of ...

Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein.

Research has shed important new light on the enemies-turned-allies that allow bacteria to exchange genes, including those ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...