For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

Researchers have identified how cells recognize and suppress transposons, mobile DNA elements that can destabilize genomes.

Much of the phenotypic variation that is observed within and between species is the result of differences in gene regulation: specifically when, where and how much the genes are expressed. Given the ...

Transposons, DNA sequences that can self-replicate and move (jump) throughout the genome, are widespread and can affect cell ...

Researchers at the Jackson Laboratory (JAX), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Yale University, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design thousands of new DNA switches that can ...

A molecule once thought to be a harmful metabolic byproduct may play a crucial role in early development and gene regulation, ...

While scientists have known for more than two decades that all cells use a strategy called RNA interference to regulate gene ...

DNA methylation is a key epigenome component that helps dictate how genes are expressed, contributing to normal cell and tissue differentiation during development, as well as the process of biological ...

What if your food could switch off bad genes? Epinutrition shows how the right nutrients reshape your DNA for better health ...