Milestones in Gene Expression also comprises a Collection of selected review-type articles and an online-only NPG library of recent research papers and review content that are organized according ...

A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the middle 1940s in Africa. Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious ...

Because of their closed population stemming from a small number of German immigrants -- about 200 individuals -- the Amish carry unusual concentrations of gene mutations that cause a number of ...

Then, Dr. Karmella A. Haynes (Emory University School of Medicine) will discuss her lab’s research into chromatin, the DNA-protein structure that packages eukaryotic genes, and their work to ...