DNA's double helix has long stood as the symbol of life’s code. But buried within the genome lies a deeper level of complexity. One of the more intriguing discoveries in recent years is the i-motif—a ...

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 ...

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 ...

While these tools can predict the overall structure, they often cannot look ... DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code, Nature (2025).

The human genome, which is all human genes together, contains about 30,000 ... and histones – which are proteins that support the structure of a chromosome – can rearrange as the specialized ...

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

While ancient DNA studies are revealing some aspects of the genetic structure of Africa before the spread of food production, issues concerning DNA preservation have limited the insights from ...

Previous research has found differences in gene expression between humans and chimpanzees, and that human cells tend to have higher gene ... such as insulating the wires, supporting the structure and ...