Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life ...

Scientists have discovered how a mitochondrial mutation rewires immune function in a model of inherited primary mitochondrial ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

New ultra-detailed imaging exposes the hidden structure and behavior of chromatin condensates — and hints at how their ...

This week in Science, Michael K. Rosen and 10 other members of a large collaboration at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the ...

A common childhood virus, BK virus, dormant in the urinary tract, is now linked to DNA damage increasing bladder cancer risk.

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...