A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois sheds light on how to determine what job tasks are properly considered essential functions of a position under the ...

Sequencing the first human genome was a herculean effort that took 13 years, hundreds of researchers around the globe and billions of dollars. But recent advances in technology have transformed genome ...

MECHANISTIC ENZYMOLOGY has traditionally focused on step-by-step explanations of the way enzymes do their jobs. To a large degree it still does, and there's nothing wrong with that. Such studies are ...

Scientists have developed a new method of determining gene function in a breakthrough that could have major implications for our understanding of the processes of life. Scientists at the University of ...

Enhancers are genetic elements that have major roles in determining cell type-specific gene expression patterns and responses to internal and external signals. Mammalian genomes contain millions of ...