(Alones Creative/iStock/Getty Images) One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix ...

A centromere is a specific region on a chromosome that ensures that, when a cell divides, the chromosome separates accurately ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Quiz: Division and differentiation in human cells - Higher Human This interactive quiz is suitable for Higher Human Biology students studying division and ...

Profiling over 86,000 nuclei from 16 human cell types, scientists mapped two forms of epigenetic regulation in single cells ...

The human family tree is gaining new branches. Researchers have found in modern humans' DNA signs of two previously unknown ancestors – extinct human forms with no fossils or decoded DNA, yet they ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

DNA methylation is a key epigenome component that helps dictate how genes are expressed, contributing to normal cell and tissue differentiation during development, as well as the process of biological ...