Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...