Bacteria invent another way to turn on genes

In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might control gene activity in bacteria through base-pairing interactions. But once ...
Nature

Mutation articles from across Nature Portfolio

A mutation is any detectable and heritable change in nucleotide sequence that causes a change in genotype and is transmitted to daughter cells and succeeding generations. Here they show that extended ...
The New York Times

The View of the War From a Florida Gas Station

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The New York Times

The Airport Meltdown

“Daily” producer Diana Nguyen here. It’s 9:00 in the morning. I am at Terminal E at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. There’s a line snaking out the door to get through security, and we ...