Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells.

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

Once disregarded as “junk DNA,” scientists now know that this molecular dark matter is crucial for determining gene activity ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Gene regulation is far more predictable than previously believed, scientists conclude after developing the deep learning ...

Researchers reprogrammed bacterial bridge recombinases to edit large genomic regions in mammalian cells, revealing a ...

Scientists show that 'genome shock' is responsible for neutralizing hybrid lethality, when seedlings die after two species of plant hybridize.

An infection with Epstein-Barr virus is a nonevent for most people. But for a subset, the virus can contribute to chronic ...

DNA from 3,700-year-old bones in a mountain cave in Calabria reveals a family relationship so rare it stands out even in deep ...