Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced that the ...

Acetylation of lysine residues in the tail domain of histone H3 is well characterized, but lysine residues in the histone globular domain are also acetylated. Histone modifications in globular domain ...

Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries.

In 2010, geneticists in Denmark passed a remarkable milestone. Extracting fragments of DNA from 4,000-year-old strands of hair from Greenland that had been stored in a Copenhagen museum for decades, ...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have revealed a previously overlooked layer of genetic variation that ...

Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have discovered a new way to kill cancer cells by blocking their ...

Traditional bisulfite sequencing damages DNA, while enzyme-based alternatives are inconsistent. A novel methylation analysis ...

DNA isn't just a long string of genetic code, but an intricate 3D structure folded inside each cell. That means the tools ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...