Comparing gene transcripts from different species reveals surprising splicing diversity.
Comparing gene transcripts from different species reveals surprising splicing diversity.
Sequencing the whole genomes of bacterial pathogens as they spread among hospital patients and health care workers could transform the control of infectious disease.
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
2012 saw the birth of a handful of non-invasive genetic prenatal tests, but the young industry faces growing pains as legal and ethical questions loom.
A new initiative lead by the UK’s National Health Service aims to sequence the genomes of as many as 100,000 patients, a project that will cost £100 million.
Archaea packages DNA around histones in a similar way to eukaryotes, suggesting that fitting a large genome into a small space was not the original role of chromatin.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
In the largest microbial eukaryote genetic sequencing effort ever attempted, researchers are investigating the transcriptomes of 700 marine algae species.
The crucial importance of language in the debate over the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests