We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

In an effort to foster progress in cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing detailed and comprehensive data about the entire genetic content of a ...

A PDAC cell line was generated from a patient who consented to make the genetic code of her cancer cells publicly available ...

This image shows chromosomes in the pancreatic cancer cell line, where mixed colors indicate chromosomal rearrangements. For ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

A PDAC cell line was generated from a patient who consented to make the genetic code of her cancer cells publicly available ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell’s nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

The link between cytoskeletal actin dynamics and correlated gene activities was unclear. However, the discovery that globular actin polymerization liberates myocardin family transcriptional ...