Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

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

When a gene is expressed, its DNA sequence is transcribed into a molecule known as RNA. Then the cell processes and edits ...

Like DNA hard drives, the approach could lock the world's data down for the long haul—if researchers can make it practical. We have a data storage problem. This year, the world’s storage needs will ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells by co-opting a process used to maintain cellular identity through ...

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

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Chemists can now precisely control the stereochemical sequence of synthetic polymers using similar techniques to those used ...