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 ...

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

New 3D genome maps reveal how DNA folding controls gene activity, offering fresh clues into disease and cell function.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

Every Tuesday at 11:05 a.m., students, faculty, staff and the greater BYU community attend the weekly devotional or forum address in the Marriott Center.

Many medical advancements have come at the cost of rodent lives, and that's largely due to some rather surprising similarities between mice and humans.

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...