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

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

Scientists mapped hidden DNA switches in brain support cells to understand how gene control may influence Alzheimer’s disease ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

Gene editing has rapidly evolved into a transformative class of technologies that allow scientists to precisely insert, ...

Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...