Micro-RNA 941
John Timmer covers the story of miR-941, a micro-RNA that may influence the expression of genes in human brains, and which appears to have taken on a novel r...
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The ENCODE project and function in the human genome
I wanted to find out more about today’s publication of the ENCODE catalog and data, and so I turned right away to lead bioinformatician Ewan Birney, who has ...
A speaking gene?
I’m just going to quote from a press release that fell into my inbox. It’s about a talk being given at the American Society for Human Genetics meeting by Ray...
Gene regulation and its evolution
I wrote early this week about Hopi Hoekstra’s work on pigmentation evolution in mice (“The color of mice”). The linked article focusing on this empirical wor...
The colors of mice
Science this week features an article by Elizabeth Pennisi about the research of evolutionary biologist Hopi Hoekstra. She studies pigment variations in wild...