Ancient Tweaking
Twenty years ago, scientists knew nothing of the scraps of RNA...
Tag Archives: EMBL
Shaping up HIV
In the 1960s, a Danish company, seeking to improve on the...
Cue factors
Our genes were once thought to be responsible for shaping who...
Surviving drought
We’ve all felt it: a quickening of the heart and a...
Pinning the tail on the histone
Nearly 60 years ago, Pamela Lewis, a geneticist at the California...
Waxing cutaneous
When we’re in the bath, our skin prevents both water from...
Decloaking the germ
The bacterium Listeria infects humans through contaminated food. Once in the...
A nervous switch
In 1863 a Heidelberg doctor described a devastating neurodegenerative condition that...