Researchers at Case Western Reserve University compared different computer tools used to analyze how DNA folds and interacts inside individual cells. Their work could help scientists better understand ...

DNA is more than simply a lengthy string of genetic code; it is a complex three-dimensional structure folded inside each cell. That means that the equipment used to examine DNA must be as ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based ... Igal Szleifer “While the genetic code is much like the words in a dictionary, the newly discovered ‘geometric code’ turns words into a living ...

In a "20/20" special report, David Muir weaves together two decades-long probes. In 1988, 19-year-old Cathy Swartz was a young mother living with her fiancé Mike Warner and her 9-month-old baby ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.