ST. LOUIS — Finding a gene that triggers the spread of eye melanoma was a discovery whose time had come, said researcher Dr. J. William Harbour, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at ...

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

Near the end of the classic 1942 movie Casablanca when Major Strasser is shot, Captain Renault famously pretends not to know who fired the gun and orders his officers to “round up the usual suspects.” ...