Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

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.

Watchmaker Genomics launches TAPS+, a next-generation technology that unites genetic and epigenetic readouts from the same ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

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People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Ancient snakes once possessed four limbs, but evolution dramatically reshaped them. A genetic 'switch' called the ZRS ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

Experts have finally uncovered a 'big bang' moment which determines how bowel cancer will grow, in landmark research ...

Is Galleri the future of cancer treatment? It's not that simple. The new research from the company, while promising, isn't ...