While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

Imagine if you could fix a spelling mistake in a long document with just one click. Now, imagine doing the same with the genetic code of a plant or even a human cell. That’s ...

A flutter of blue and yellow darts through a field in late May. Trees, shrubs and summer flowers fill the landscape. A ...

The rapid expansion of high-throughput sequencing technologies has generated unprecedented amounts of multi-omics data, ...

The 4D map, which includes more than 140,000 folds and loops for every type of cell, illustrates how human DNA is organized not only in space but also in time. This information is crucial ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

Genetic research is finally starting to explain how DNA risk scores translate into real disease, not just in single genes but ...

Since the announcements by federal health authorities earlier this year that federal mRNA vaccine funding will be curtailed, ...

And so, as I do every year since they stopped paying me to write a dedicated piece on the subject, I’m devoting column space ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat As the year is about to end, here is a short review of important breakthroughs in science that defined the ...