Researchers identify new mutations in schizophrenia patients without a family history of the disease.
Researchers identify new mutations in schizophrenia patients without a family history of the disease.
Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine.
Healthy mice are born from germ cell precursors grown in vitro.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
Pro-evolution bumper stickers and emblems are being removed from the cars of biologists in Florida.
Sequencing the DNA of individual neurons is a way to dissect the genes underlying major neurological and psychological disorders.
Motivated by a career-ending ligament tear, a former NFL player starts a company to test athletes' genetic predispositions to common sports injuries.
Using the strongest molecular binding partnership in biology to separate different cell types
Isolating specific cell types from a mass of plant or animal tissue is laborious and tricky. To study epigenetic changes and genes that are expressed differently in different cell lineages—such as cancer cells versus normal cells, or the two types of
After completing his studies in medicine and biology, a restless Ernst Haeckel set off for Italy in 1859 to study art and marine biology. The diversity of life fascinated the 26-year-old Prussian, and in addition to painting landscapes, he spent the