Technical advances in reading long DNA sequences have ramifications in understanding primate evolution and human disease. The genome of the Western lowland gorilla has now been sequenced and assembled ...

Covalent BTK inhibitors and Bcl-2 inhibitors are primary treatments for CLL, but alternatives are needed for relapsed or refractory cases. Treatment sequencing is vital, with potential switches ...

Researchers have shed new light on how the structure of regulatory sequences in DNA is packaged in a cell. This work has implications for better understanding the role that gene sequences called ...

What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers have come one important step closer to answering such evolutionary questions correctly. In the current issue of Science they uncover systematic ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American But rather than ask you to purchase it, I ...

Fellow American Academy for Microbiology, Deputy Dean and Assoc. Dean for Research & Graduate Education, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Delaware Enigmatic and often vilified ...