Even as they develop at their primary site, pancreatic cancer cells are already expressing the genes that will determine ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist ...

The Major Histocompatibility Complex region evolves via gene birth-and-death, resulting in short-lived genes, rapidly expanding gene subfamilies, and many gene fragments.

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...