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Careful oversight is required to ensure that chimeras and transgenic animals continue to serve as powerful biomedical research tools.

MicroRNAs from plants accumulate in mammalian blood and tissues, where they can regulate gene expression.

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in genomics, genetics and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

The 1918 influenza was circulating silently before it began killing millions of people in just a year and a half.

Players of an online game that allows users to adjust how proteins are folded have solved a decade-long protein structure mystery.

Researchers package a fluorescence microscope—including the light and camera—that can image the brain of a freely moving mouse.

Soderbergh’s new pandemic thriller gets a lot of the science right, but does contain a few unlikely details.

Nerve signals control T cell responses, helping to explain inflammation and stroke.

Researchers have identified the cellular regulators of cytokine storms in influenza, which cause serious illness and death.

Researchers are developing ways to convert mature somatic cells from one cell type to another, avoiding the tumor-causing pluripotent stage associated with stem cells.

Researchers have sequenced the genomes of 17 different mouse strains, boosting research into the genetic basis of phenotypic variation, disease, and evolution.

Heightened guidelines and education are not enough to thwart the use of unproven and potentially harmful stem cell therapies. Scientists must get involved.