In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 7 of Aging (Aging-US) on July 21, 2025, titled "Association of DNA ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with international institutions, has ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered a new mechanism for memory formation, and it involves changes in the structure of your DNA. If you were asked to picture a molecule of DNA, chances are you would ...

"Among other functions, supercoiling is the cell's way of confining about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of linear DNA into the microscopic nucleus of the cell." As the DNA supercoils inside the nucleus, it ...

In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues who were simply trying to put together a compendium of human DNA functions.

Children living in war-torn countries not only suffer from poor mental health outcomes, but war may cause adverse biological changes at the DNA level, which could have lifelong health impacts ...

“Among other functions, supercoiling is the cell’s way of confining about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of linear DNA into the microscopic nucleus of the cell.” As the DNA supercoils inside the nucleus, it ...