What do a human, a rose, and a bacterium have in common?
Each one of these, along with every other living organism on Earth, contains the molecular instruction...
Recent technological advances are enabling the development of new screening tests that make medical procedures less invasive and more affordable.
Indeed, new m...
More than fifty years ago François Jacob and Jacques Monod published in The Journal of Molecular Biology an article presenting the discovery of the first genet...
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that encompasses a set of cognitive and physical symptoms caused by the presence of an additional copy of chromosome 21 and ...
The second half of the nineteenth century was a time of remarkable advances in genetic research: Scientists were able to identify chromosomes under the microsco...