Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the material in cells that carries all genetic information in humans, animals, plants, and all living cells. It’s passed down from ...

To pack 2m of DNA into a 6 micrometre nucleus, our genome is packed into super-dense ball without a single knot in it. The shape is called a fractal globule and until now, it was completely ...

DNA can be further compressed through a twisting process called supercoiling (Figure 9). Most prokaryotes lack histones, but they do have supercoiled forms of their DNA held together by special ...

What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history ...

The newly updated sequence fills in most of the remaining gaps, providing the full 3.055 billion base pairs (“letters”) of our DNA code in its entirety.

Technology is now making it so it's possible to sequence the whole exome or whole genome now for a few thousand dollars as opposed to the billion dollars that it took to do the first whole genome ...

Genetic counselors will take a look at family history and go many generations to look at distant relatives to see if there is a pattern to the cancers of that family that can be inherited, or does it ...

Your genome should belong to you, but it doesn’t always. Right now, for all intents and purposes, it belongs to the service or research institution that produces your sequence data.

Snyder, who is 56, two years ago decided to see what genetics might tell him about his own health. He's not alone, as the cost of mapping a person's full genetic profile has been dropping quickly ...