A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...

Warm temperatures and clear skies have drawn people across the Ozarks outdoors this week, but the pleasant weather is bringing an unwelcome guest: allergy season, arriving weeks earlier than normal.

Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do. Moreover, each step in the flow of ...