The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes, but that only accounts for roughly two percent of the genome. For many years, it was easier for scientists to simply ignore all of that ...

The expression of genes has to be very carefully controlled by cells; serious problems can arise when genes are expressed in the wrong places, at the wrong times, or at the wrong levels, for some ...

A new review article published in Genes & Diseases explores the intricate relationship between non-coding RNAs and oxidative stress in cancer progression shedding new light on the mechanisms that ...

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have discovered that changing just one letter in DNA can completely alter sex development in mice. In the new study, published in Nature Communications, a ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called ‘junk DNA’ contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. When people picture DNA, they often imagine a set of genes ...

Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein.

When a gene produces too much protein, it can have devastating consequences on brain development and function. Patients with an overproduction of protein from the chromodomain helicase DNA binding ...

Learn how small mutations in non-coding DNA can alter sex development in rodents.

A single DNA letter, inserted into a stretch of the genome that doesn’t code for any protein, was enough to turn genetically female mouse embryos into anatomically male mice. The experiment, published ...

Scientists have uncovered new genetic causes of diabetes in infants, pointing to a region of the genome that has long been ...