After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

It is still not fully understood how, despite having the same set of genes, cells turn into neurons, bones, skin, heart, or roughly 200 other kinds of cells, and then exhibit stable cellular behavior ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

The first phase of the U.K. synthetic human genome project has successfully completed, realizing key steps in chromosome ...

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion. Researchers discovered that it actively reshapes the 3D structure of the human ...