The way proteins move is often what gives them biological activity: they can open, close, twist, and rearrange themselves in ways that allow them to bind to other molecules or perform complex ...

Every cell in a body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These cell-specific gene expression patterns, which ensure that a brain cell is different ...

Whenever I interview the founders of a new biotech company, I typically inquire about the origin of the company’s name. There is an astonishingly wide range of responses to this question. A few days ...