What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Rogue DNA rings known as ecDNA may hold the key to cracking glioblastoma’s deadly resilience. Emerging before tumors even ...

How did digits evolve? While it is clear that they derive from genetic programs already present in fish, their precise origin ...

But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a ...