In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Knocking down EPIC1 sensitized triple negative breast tumor-bearing mice to immunotherapy with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab.

The abundance of conserved noncoding regions holds even for so-called ultraconserved elements at the very tip of the mammalian conservation scale 2, as well as for sequences conserved between long ...

In this webinar, Andrew Stergachis will highlight how long-read multiomic tools reveal regulatory mechanisms in rare genetic ...

Immunotherapy employs patients' own immune systems to fight cancer, and it has shown itself to be an effective treatment in ...

Another Massachusetts biotech has reached the end of the road. | Another Massachusetts biotech has reached the end of the ...

The same genetic makeup that allows a grizzly bear to emerge from hibernation healthy could transform treatments of chronic ...

Scientists once dismissed the theory that traits acquired during life could be inherited, but with new evidence and hypotheses, it’s seeing a resurgence.

Long non-coding RNAs articles from across Nature Portfolio Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are a type of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that exceed 200 nucleotides in length. lncRNAs are a relatively ...

The team theorizes, that over evolutionary time, these genes became genetic "switches," turned on or off depending on whether ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people around the world. They leveraged recent technological advancements to analyze ...