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How Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock nearly gave up genetics for meteorology

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The first study of how cosmetics influence others' perceptions a woman’s personality suggests that makeup can make a difference.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Daniel Schechtman for the identification of quasicrystals.

Researchers show that errors in chromosome segregation known to cause chromosome instability can also lead to gene translocations, insertions, or deletions.

Even highly diluted crude oil can impact fish in the marshes bordering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

An interactive online map can help researchers track the spread of antibiotic resistant microbes.

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

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

For the second time in two years, a University of Chicago researcher falls ill to a laboratory-acquired infection.

A newly discovered fossil of a nearly 600-million-year-old comb jelly ancestor may call for scientists to rethink early animal evolution.