Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...

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Biologics now encompass a wide range of therapeutic solutions from IVF to vaccines. What makes such technologies possible in ...

Single-cell analysis fails to find a functional link between the organization of chromatin domain organization and gene activity.

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), made from many copies of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), is the core component that powers ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that temporarily disabling a protein complex that organizes DNA into loops ...

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

Processes such as wound healing, hair growth, and the continual renewal of cells all rely on cell division. In this process, chromosomes must be evenly distributed between two daughter cells. Even ...

Every cell in your body faces the same engineering puzzle: how to cram roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus just a few ...

Scientists have identified a new RNA molecule that may play a key role in improving survival in cancer patients.