The inspiration for Carlos Eire’s latest book struck him while visiting a medieval convent in Spain 40 years ago. At one point during a tour, a guide informed Eire and the other visitors that the room where they were standing was the very place where...
Last summer, Yale biophysicist Robert G. Shulman co-authored a paper that demonstrated that metabolism has a greater, and earlier, impact on adaptation than previously understood. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental...
Around 98.5% of human DNA is non-coding, meaning it doesn’t get copied to make proteins. A new study has connected many of these non-coding regions to the genes they affect and laid out guidelines for how researchers can continue this work going forward....