Epigenetic changes do not alter the genetic code itself, but by changing how DNA is organized within the cell, epigenetic ...

The city center is a structure shaped like a peach core that houses all our ... have provided insight into when and where genes turn on or off. Even so, “half of human genes are barely mentioned” in ...

Helmholtz Munich and the University of Sydney have identified biological mechanisms that are shared across psychiatric ...

For years, the dominant narrative held that modern humans arose from a single, unbroken lineage in Africa. But then came ...

The basis for the structure is a sequence of nucleotides ... They found the sequence in thousands of human genes, but the sequence was in the middle of the RNA instead of on the tail end.

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity ... of these base pairs forms the structure of DNA Genomic variation can ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have ...

Previous research has found differences in gene expression between humans and chimpanzees, and that human cells tend to ... supporting the structure and clearing out debris. Until recently ...