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 ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

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

A team of researchers has generated one of the most detailed 3D maps of human chromosomes, cataloging over 140,000 DNA looping interactions.

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

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 ...

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes.

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

Researchers created the most detailed maps yet of the genome’s three-dimensional organization using human stem cells and ...