Scientists have unveiled incredible images of how the DNA code is read and interpreted – revealing new detail about one of the fundamental processes of life. The mechanism for reading DNA and decoding ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain diseases ‘ran in families’. However, through the years, scientists have kept ...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified specific DNA variants in the non-coding regions of the genome contributing to chemotherapy resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia ...

Two scientists think we can safeguard the world's knowledge against an apocalypse if we store it in DNA. How far-fetched is the idea? Ed Yong meets them to find out. Neither Ewan Birney nor Nick ...

The majority of our DNA forms what is known as 'dark matter' – mysterious genetic sequences that has played a key role in the evolution of our species (Credit: Getty Images) Twenty years ago, an ...

Cell division is one of the most important processes taking place in your body – and the life cycle of each cell is carefully controlled. The operating manual of your cells is encoded by DNA. Each ...

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are a type of RNA molecule that do not carry instructions to make proteins. Instead, they influence how other genes are expressed. There are tens of thousands of lncRNAs ...