DNA methylation — the chemical tagging of cytosine bases that helps decide which genes are on and which are silent — is one ...

Scientists have traced the development of a mouse embryo from its first two cells to the formation of organs, using a ...

For decades, scientists have been able to look at individual moments in the development of an embryo: a snapshot of a ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

By stamping barcodes into the genome, researchers traced cell lineages from a single starting cell to more than 1.2 million ...

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo. They recorded cells' ...

Death does not make DNA disappear. Long after the heart has stopped and the brain has lost function, genetic material can remain inside cells and tissues. What changes is the environment around it: ...

A centromere is a specific region on a chromosome that ensures that, when a cell divides, the chromosome separates accurately so each new cell receives the correct amount of genetic material. Despite ...

Learn how DNA can be exchanged between two cells that connect by forming nanotubes, and find out why this is crucial for cancer research. When cells in our body are going through a rough patch due to ...

Meet the Scientist feature highlights how Srinivas Ramachandran's lab studies how the genetic instructions for life, DNA, are ...

Immune cells are the elite athletes of the human body. While other cells stay in place, immune cells travel throughout our bodies, squeezing through small channels, stretching themselves, sampling the ...