A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...

The human genome comprises both our protein-coding genes and the regulatory information that controls when, and to what extent, those genes are expressed. While humans mostly share the same repertoire ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

Start by thinking about the dilemmas your people will face. by Erin Meyer At the beginning of my career, I worked for the health-care-software specialist HBOC. One day, a woman from human resources ...