Craig Venter, towering figure in genetics who led the race to decode the human genome

Craig Venter, the molecular biologist who has died aged 79, was one of the most colourful and controversial characters in the ...
Nature

Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here’s how he transformed science

Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ...
eLife

Are interphylum spiralian relationships resolvable?

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Create the First Detailed ‘Smell Map’ of Odor Sensors in the Mouse Nose—and Sniff Out Some Surprising Discoveries

In two new studies, researchers used genetic techniques to upend a longstanding assumption that nerve cells with scent ...
Nature

When chemistry meets biology, proteases prosper

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute and the Université Louis Pasteur have jointly developed high-throughput assays to characterize proteases and their substrates. Proteases have their ...