A new atlas pairs DNA methylation with 3D genome folding in 86,689 human cells and ties disease risk to specific cell types.

Every cell in the body contains essentially the same DNA, yet a brain cell behaves differently from a muscle cell or an ...

A molecular illustration of the crowded interior and cell envelope of Escherichia coli. (David S. Goodsell, The Scripps ...

Nearly every cell in the human body contains essentially the same genetic information, yet different cells activate different ...

Scientists found centromere DNA sitting at telomeres in ALT cancers, a merger of chromosome regions once thought impossible.` ...

Learn how DNA can be exchanged between two cells that connect by forming nanotubes, and find out why this is crucial for cancer research. When cells in our body are going through a rough patch due to ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene linked to congenital heart disease acts like an architect for the heart cell’s DNA.

Nearly every cell in the human body contains essentially the same genetic information, yet different cells activate different ...

For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit ...

The cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a puzzling reputation: even though they are treatment mainstays for multiple forms of cancer, they can damage cancer-killing T cells and disrupt the ...