For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Until she was thirty-three, Kathryn Paige Harden, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, had enjoyed a vocational ascent so steady that it seemed guided by the hand of ...

The complex and repetitive nature of centromeres has historically posed challenges to their genomic assembly and functional understanding, which are now being overcome with long-read sequencing. This ...