Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

On the following pages, you’ll meet just a few of the UAB scientists whose discoveries hold tremendous potential to transform the treatment landscape for a variety of diseases, from kidney disease to ...

"Genetic changes to basic developmental processes evolve more frequently than thought." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 May 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 05 / 150507145034.htm>. Even ...

As I suggested in previous posts, many media, popular science, and official pronouncements about genetics, epigenetics, and genomics are sometimes at best misleading, and at worst, down-right wrong.