Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...

Genetics aren't necessarily destiny for those with mutations thought to always cause inherited blindness, a new study says. Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even ...

Assembling a comprehensive catalog of common human sequence polymorphisms is a key goal of the Human Genome Project. The International SNP Map Working Group has compiled a map of 1.4 million ...

Insects thrive in incredibly diverse and challenging environments. While we now know that nutrient-sensing pathways, ...

The identification of geographical patterns in microbial distributions has begun to challenge purely ecological explanations of biogeography and the underlying principle of “everything is everywhere: ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, depending on their physical structure. New research from the Institute of ...