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 ...

Recent advances in forensic genetics have improved the range, precision and reliability of forensic information obtainable from biological trace material. The author reviews how non-targeted and ...