- November 20, 2023
Trevor Sorrells appointed HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
- November 01, 2023
Skin in the game
- November 01, 2023
Supersize the cell
- November 01, 2023
Letters
- November 01, 2023
From the journals
- October 06, 2023Source: Yale Daily News
Local high school’s BioScience Club introduces students to careers in science
Welcome to the Department of Genetics
The information in genomes provides the instruction set for producing each living organism on the planet. While we have a growing understanding of the basic biochemical functions of many of the individual genes in genomes, understanding the complex processes by which this encoded information is read out to orchestrate production of incredibly diverse cell types and organ functions, and how different species use strikingly similar gene sets to nonetheless produce fantastically diverse organismal morphologies with distinct survival and reproductive strategies, comprise many of the deepest questions in all of science. Moreover, we recognize that inherited or acquired variation in DNA sequence and changes in epigenetic states contribute to the causation of virtually every disease that afflicts our species. Spectacular advances in genetic and genomic analysis now provide the tools to answer these fundamental questions.