For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Henry M. Kronenberg, Barbara E. McDevitt, Joseph A. Majzoub, Jeremy Nathans, Phillip A. Sharp, John T. Potts and Alexander Rich Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of ...

Dr. Alan Herbert from InsideOutBio describes ground-breaking research in a paper published online today by Royal Society Open Science. The study focuses on the digital genome that uses programmable ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of ...

A biohacker injected himself with DNA sequence made from parts of the Bible and Koran in a risky experiment because he "wondered whether it would be possible." Adrien Locatelli, from Grenoble in ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right ...