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

These three distinguished researchers bring their expertise in synthetic biology, materials science, and genome research to contribute to the Institute’s mission of societal impact ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

A new generation of personalized cancer vaccines is taking shape through the use of neoantigen-based dendritic cell (DC) vaccines.

Deterrence will be necessary. The biggest reason to build a military that can win the wars of the future is to prevent those ...

A specific form of epigenetic aging, ACCA drift, accumulates in intestinal stem cells, silencing key genes through hypermethylation. Driven by age-related inflammation, weakened Wnt signaling and ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Single-cell sequencing provides unprecedented detail into cell-to-cell variability, uncovering key biological mechanisms in ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...