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

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature.

Massive endeavor including Hopkins researchers and students aims to understand the planet's most biodiverse habitats ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current genetic research. Because .