A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

Curled up inside every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body is six feet of DNA, spooled tightly and carrying the genetic instructions that govern so much of who a person becomes.

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

A study on bat genomes, involving Texas Tech University, discovered genetic adaptations that help bats resist viral ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...

No doubt 2025 will usher in many more advances in CRISPR therapies, thanks to the FDA’s new Platform Technology Designation ...

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

"Understanding inheritance through genes and DNA has been one of the most crucial elements of our understanding of biology," ...