A research group has developed a novel and highly accessible technology for producing uniform biomolecular condensates using ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) today announced its partnership with Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) for an award by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) for its POSEIDON program ...

Whole Genome Amplification (WGA) offers vast opportunities in personalized medicine, cancer research, and reproductive health ...

Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s ...

These three distinguished researchers bring their expertise in synthetic biology, materials science, and genome research to contribute to the Institute’s mission of societal impact ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...

It turns out, one of history’s most infamous figures may have been hiding more than we all know till now. A new Channel 4 documentary, Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator, suggests Adolf Hitler may ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

Using comparative molecular biology with human cGAS – which actually inhibits DNA repair – the scientists found that the naked mole-rat's enzyme has four key changes that facilitate the important work ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...