Why do we crave cookies? When we're sad, when we're celebrating, when we're bored. There are scientific reasons we reach for our favorite baked goods this time of year.

New research has investigated the mechanism by which bivalency functions to poise genes for expression during cell differentiation, providing insight into a long-standing paradigm in the regulation of ...

As well as being essential in the precise packaging of DNA into the space of the nucleus, histone proteins are also the site ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...