DNA methylation plays an important role in separating us genetically from our closest relatives.

Researchers have built a platform that programs short DNA fragments inside living cells to control protein activity, all without editing or altering the cell’s genome. The system, published in Nature ...

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 ...

DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic stability and its failure can lead to human disease. Various DNA repair systems exist, such as base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...

Science and medicine are incredibly amazing. Thanks to modern science and medicine, we now have lifespans far beyond our Dark Age predecessors, living until ripe old age and enjoying the fruits of our ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but ...

Every cell type in the human body carries the same approximately 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA, yet a liver cell behaves nothing like a neuron. The epigenome explains this difference: in each cell, ...