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

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

A study shows that changes in noncoding genes can trigger autoimmune diabetes in infants by affecting hundreds of immune-related genes, expanding understanding of genetic disease.

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 ...

Typically, female mouse embryos with two X chromosomes develop ovaries because a gene called Sox9 is suppressed. In male ...

Neonatal autoimmune diabetes is caused by mutations in non-coding genes RNU4ATAC and RNU6ATAC, which disrupt gene regulation ...

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 ...

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions of the cell, the rest of the genome cannot be ignored. However, for decades ...

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have discovered that changing just one letter in DNA can completely alter sex development ...