Researchers have mapped 50,000 of DNA's mysterious "knots" in the human genome. The innovative study of DNA's hidden structures may open up new approaches for treatment and diagnosis of diseases, ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

3D illustration of a ribosome translating RNA into a peptide or protein. Thousands of genes once thought to be noncoding can make small proteins, or peptideins, after all. Credit: Shutterstock After ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...

Around 98.5% of human DNA is non-coding, meaning it doesn’t get copied to make proteins. A new study has connected many of these non-coding regions to the genes they affect and laid out guidelines for ...