Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein. In the last ...

Learn how small mutations in non-coding DNA can alter sex development in rodents.

The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes, but that only accounts for roughly two percent of the genome. For many years, it was easier for scientists to simply ignore all of that ...

Scientists have found new genetic causes for diabetes in babies—in a part of the genome that has historically been overlooked in genetic studies. Until recently, most research has investigated causes ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called ‘junk DNA’ contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. When people picture DNA, they often imagine a set of genes ...

Almost 1,500 genes have been implicated in intellectual disabilities; yet for most people with such disabilities, genetic causes remain unknown. Perhaps this is in part because geneticists have been ...

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...

Neonatal autoimmune diabetes is caused by mutations in non-coding genes RNU4ATAC and RNU6ATAC, which disrupt gene regulation ...

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have discovered that changing just one letter in DNA can completely alter sex development ...