Pepper plants may be hiding some of their most consequential genetic variation in regions long treated as difficult, repetitive stretches...

Chromatin, the molecular packaging system that compacts DNA inside the nucleus, is not merely a passive storage device. By loosening...

A new study has uncovered how the immune system locks developing cells into the type 1 classical dendritic cell, or...

Variant effect prediction has entered a new phase, but one of biology’s largest blind spots remains stubbornly difficult to resolve....

A new genetic study is bringing the brain’s movement-control circuitry into sharper focus, suggesting that a person’s risk of developing...

A new study reports a step toward treating mammalian gene regulation as an engineering problem: rather than searching through the...

A single-cell transcriptomic study of the orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides, is offering an unprecedented view of how a fish gonad...

Freshwater ecosystems are home to an extraordinary fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity, yet many of the bacteria inhabiting rivers, lakes...

A gene therapy designed to replace a damaged or missing copy of the alpha protein kinase 3 gene has restored...

A new study in budding yeast suggests that one of biology’s most fundamental processes—cell growth—may be governed by a remarkably...