Analyzing 5.5 million mouse neurons revealed an order to what scientists had believed to be chaos.

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

Scientists have created the first detailed map of smell receptors in the nose, catching up with similar achievements in sight ...

Scientists have created a comprehensive map of smell receptors in the mouse nose, revealing a few surprises about this ...

Patterns of molecular activity in the blood may hold clues not only to how fit someone is, but also to the biological ...

From Mendel’s pea plants to today’s genome mapping, our understanding of genetics has transformed how we see heredity, traits, and evolution. DNA’s code, once mysterious, now reveals a complex ...

New research reveals that hundreds of smell receptors in the nose are "highly organized" into tight bands based on type.

During infection, pathogens must adapt quickly to the conditions to thrive inside the body. A research team at the University ...

Mitochondrial disease is a rare and complex genetic disorder that affects people in different ways. There is currently no ...

Charles Gersbach and his colleagues are pursuing promising CRISPR technologies focused on controlling gene activity rather ...

A robust and quantitative map links chromatin modification and gene expression of cells during zebrafish embryogenesis.