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How Birds Got Their Beaks
When birds got their wings, they lost the clawed fingers wielded by their dinosaur relatives….
Gene Expression is Key to Understanding Differences Between Individuals and Disease Susceptibility
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project consortia, which includes scientists from the Centre for Genomic Regulation…
Scientists Identify Tissue-Degrading Enzyme in Bat-Killing Fungus
Scientists at UC San Francisco and Brown University have figured out the likely way that…
Congratulations to Nadine Levin, ISG Postdoctoral Fellow
Nadine Levin has been awarded a Post PhD Research Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner Gren…
How an RNA Gene Silences a Whole Chromosome
Researchers at Caltech have discovered how an abundant class of RNA genes, called long non-coding…
The Rumors Were True: Scientists edited the genomes of human embryos for the first time
Excerpt: “In March, a rumor surfaced in the scientific community that was intriguing, and perhaps…
Resistance to Antibiotics Found in Isolated Amazonian Tribe
When scientists first made contact with an isolated village of Yanomami hunter-gatherers in the remote…
How The Wolf Became The Dog
Scientists who study canine origins seem to fight about everything: where dogs arose, when this…
Chimps That Hunt Offer a New View on Evolution
Studies of hunters and gatherers — and of chimpanzees, which are often used as stand-ins…
2015 | Hannah Landecker & Aaron Panofsky – Commentaries and Reflections on "Inheritance of Acquired Epigenetic Variations"
A special section of commentaries and reflections on epigenetic inheritance has been published in the…
Big Data Allows Computer Engineers to Find Genetic Clues in Humans
Big data: It’s a term we read and hear about often, but is hard to…
Why Iceland Is the World’s Greatest Genetic Laboratory
Today, the journal Nature Genetics released a set of four papers based entirely on the…