To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new wave of research is forcing a rethink, showing that the three-dimensional ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...