Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s elusive DNA.

Scientists are searching for therapeutics that mimic the life-extending benefits of caloric restriction, exercise, and a good ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around 3 billion base pairs in humans, this material ...

Cancer researchers have long treated genetic chaos and epigenetic rewiring as separate engines of disease, two parallel hallmarks that help tumors grow, spread, and resist treatment. Now a new wave of ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a double helix. That picture is still right, but it is no longer enough.

New study shows that in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, their breast cells already carry a clear pattern of DNA “damage ...

This interesting study adapts machine learning tools to analyze movements of a chromatin locus in living cells in response to serum starvation. The machine learning approach developed is useful, the ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA – its genome – and segregate it equally ...

This image shows the three-dimensional genome structures of several chromosomes reported in a Dip-C study, which were used to train the new ChromoGen model. Credits:Credit: Courtesy of the researchers ...