The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center researcher links complex traits to the genes that underlie them.

Postdocs nationwide were set to have an increased minimum salary or become eligible for overtime pay until a court injunction halted new Department of Labor regulations.

The human lymph nodes and spleen maintain unique, compartmentalized sets of naive T cells well into old age.

Most researchers feel stimulated by their work but are dissatisfied with their compensation, according to this year’s results.

Some ciliates use the same trio of nucleotides to code for an amino acid and to stop translation.

Since their introduction to the lab, pluripotent stem cells have gone from research tool to therapeutic, but the journey has been rocky.

Traditional stop codons have a double meaning in the protozoans' mRNA, sometimes calling for an amino acid during translation.

Activity in the anterior cingulate cortex corresponds with observing the behavior of others when their actions, or the subsequent outcomes, don’t match one’s expectation.

Acting Chief, Section on Sensory Cell Development and Function, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Age: 38

Scientists design a bacterial genome with only 57 codons.

Climate variation has sculpted our schnozzes since the earliest humans evolved, but environmental pressures can’t explain everything.

Member, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Age: 43