Multigene families are at the core of immune system complexity, shaping how organisms sense, respond to, and remember infection. Gene duplication, ...
As global temperatures rise, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists work to grow stronger, more resilient crops. Yet ...
A food writer learns there may be a scientific reason behind his lifelong cucumber aversion. Even chefs and food writers can have strong aversions to certain foods. Cucumber aversion may have a ...
Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working ...
Yet Crick was not afraid to be wrong. Before settling on the double helix, he proposed a triple one. He published an ...
Emerging research reveals that organisms may never fully catch up to their changing environments, opening new questions about how evolution really unfolds. Credit: Stock New research challenges the ...
R-loops are structures that form when a strand of RNA (red) forms a stable structure with double-stranded DNA, causing one strand of the DNA to form a loop. R-loops are associated with gene ...
New research has filled in missing links between gene variants that have been implicated in disease through genome-wide association studies and how the variants drive disease pathology. The research ...
A British biotech firm called Basecamp Research has spent the past few years collecting troves of genetic data from microbes living in extreme environments around the world, identifying more than a ...
How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter who was in the room during a meeting when ...
Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Large-scale comparison of gene families across ...
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. By Carl Zimmer In the ...