In a new study published on March 9 in Nature, a team of scientists has developed a framework for studying the fitness landscapes of regulatory DNA. They created a neural network model that, when ...

In fact, 5hmC appears to have such an important influence on gene expression that scientists have termed 5hmC the "sixth letter" of the DNA alphabet alongside A, T, C, G, and an intermediate ...

Despite the sheer number of genes that each human cell contains, these so-called “coding” DNA sequences comprise just 1% of our entire genome. The remaining 99% is made up of “non-coding” DNA — which, ...