Researchers have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations -- the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer -- aren't so ...

Imagine a garden filled with every variety of flower in the world — delicate orchids, towering sunflowers, the waxy blossoms of the saguaro cactus and the corpse flower’s putrid eruptions. Now imagine ...

SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment) was first described and used in 1990 to isolate a functional oligonucleotide from a random pool of differently-shaped DNA or RNA ...

Students at Georgetown talk differently. Being from Northern Indiana I was blissfully unaware of many words that dominate conversation and culture at Georgetown. The differences extend across all ...

Chemists in New Jersey have identified a new carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction by using an automated, high-throughput method to test more than 1,000 combinations of chemicals. Many important ...