Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.
The decades-long quest to harness the power of messenger RNA to enhance cancer treatment has focused primarily on its value ...
Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...
Unveiling a new chapter in the understanding of human genetics, scientists have discovered a hidden geometric code within our ...
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.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...