Two Nature Genetics papers probe evolution and functionality of microRNAs and their target sites

CRTAP affects prolyl 3-hydroxylation of fibrillar collagen

Italian team implicates R-spondin1 as an ovary-promoting sex-determination gene

You have $200,000 to spend in your new lab. What should you buy?

A genetic mutation could help unlock the secrets of the molecular clock

Two new studies suggest a major body of research may need to be reevaluated

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Why should junior investigators get all the glory? Postdocs do most of the work.

Neil Kelleher: Thinking big then doing it

What would you do if you could apply modern technologies to yesterday's scientific questions?

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Credit: © ISTOCK.COMwww.ISTICK.COM" /> Credit: © ISTOCK.COMwww.ISTICK.COM When you're buying fish, you probably look at its color, smell it, and perhaps feel it for texture. If Martine Morzel has her way, you might also perform a mass spectrometry profile. Morzel, of the French National Institute for Agronomic Research, was interested in what effects preslaughter activity have on the quality of resulting fillets. In typical farming practice, trout kept in a large