The University of California, Santa Cruz, has played a key role in an international project to catalog all of the biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome. The results of the ...

The CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) is pivotal in orchestrating diverse biological functions across the human genome, yet the mechanisms driving its cell type-active DNA binding affinity remain ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Remember that news-making ENCODE study with ...