California may soon become the first US state to adopt legislation banning the manufacture and sale of children's products containing certain chemicals designed to soften plastics.

The complete chromosome 7 sequence enables identification of candidate genes for autism.

reveals that 271 genes are essential for life.

Genomes of bugs from the gut reveal information about host-symbiont relationships.

Over 1,500 human genes could be regulated by antisense transcripts.

Phosphorylation of the yeast silencing protein Sir3p leads to shortened lifespan.

Clonal analysis uncovers the role of cell growth in petal shape formation.

Searching for common DNA polymorphisms that affect gene regulation in vivo.

regulates gene imprinting at autosomal and inactivated X chromosome loci.

MicroRNAs may represent as much as one percent of the genes in the human genome.

The tyrosinase/L-dopa pathway modifies glaucoma in a murine model.

Genomic collinearity is important in yeast speciation.