Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Scientists used decades old air filters to read DNA in dust, revealing a long decline in biodiversity across northern Sweden.

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

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 ...

DNA origami cages constrain individual proteins toward preferred orientations on electrodes, dramatically improving electrical measurement precision and enabling detection of subtle structural changes ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

Inside cells, DNA twists and coils itself into a variety of different secondary structures—including i-motifs (iMs) and ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...