Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

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

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

After nearly ten years of internal research and commercialization planning, Atlas Data Storage, a spin-off built on Twist ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team from ...

A team of researchers has generated one of the most detailed 3D maps of human chromosomes, cataloging over 140,000 DNA looping interactions.

The researchers focused on Fanconi anemia, a rare inherited disorder characterized by a failure to repair specific types of DNA damage. In this condition, the two strands of DNA literally become stuck ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.