There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Changes in genes have been linked to the development of different diseases for a while. However, it's not exactly clear what ...

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

The tiny little powerhouses of our cells, the mitochondria, are unique among organelles because they carry their own tiny ...