Extra Centrosomes Can Drive Tumor Formation in Mice Mice engineered to overproduce the organelles involved in cell division spontaneously...

Left: A decellularized spinach leaf is pictured before dye is added to test its ability to filter blood through tissue.Right: Picture of...

Abundant Sequence Errors in Public Databases A new algorithm reveals hoards of preparation-induced DNA mutations in publicly available...

Next Generation: Mobile Microscope Detects DNA Sequences A cell phone–based microscope can identify mutations in tumor tissue and image...

RNA Sequences Don’t Predict In Vivo Transcript Structure Eukaryotes prevent secondary RNA structures called G-quadruplexes, commonly...

Exploring the Epigenetics of Ethnicity Researchers attempt to estimate how much of the human genome’s methylation patterns can be...

Methylation Maestro After initially discovering that DNA methylation represses transcription, Howard Cedar continues to explore how the...

New Technique Enables Observation of Accessible Chromatin A test tube-based genome-labeling technique has been brought under the...

Characterizing the Imprintome Three techniques for identifying the collection of maternal and paternal genes silenced in offspring By...

Top 10 Innovations 2016 This year’s list of winners celebrates both large leaps and small (but important) steps in life science...