Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

A team of Chinese scientists has uncovered a hidden 3D structure in rice DNA that allows the crop to grow more grain while ...

One of the mysteries about the origin of life is how DNA randomly formed palindrome pairs in order to function. A new study from the University of Helsinki analyzes regulatory genes known as microRNA ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases ...

A man with neurofibromas who didn't know he's been clinically diagnosed with NF1, learns he harbors a deeply intronic, likely ...