A team of researchers has generated one of the most detailed 3D maps of human chromosomes, cataloging over 140,000 DNA looping interactions.

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

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 ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

As tough as medieval chainmail armor and as soft as a contact lens. This material is not taken from science fiction, it is a ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...