Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals that DNA organizes into a complex 3D structure before genes activate, changing how scientists view early life.

An illustration of multicolored tangle of threads within a small black sphere. A 3D illustration shows DNA packaged into the nucleus, scientists with the 4D Nucleome project are now building accurate ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have developed a new method called PARTAGE that provides ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful new genetic toolkit that allows scientists to study how genes function at the level of ...

Life begins with a quiet but precise choreography inside the nucleus. For decades, scientists believed that a newly fertilized egg started in disorder, its DNA loosely arranged and waiting for ...