“The complexity of the cell presents a barrier to attempts to study it as an integrated system,” the new institute’s executive director, Alan “Rick” Horwitz, told reporters during a press briefing at ...

One of the favorite complaints of biologists is that we spend too much money on large-scale research projects. Grousing about big science, however, is nothing new. I remember in the early 1990s when ...

How can we understand all the interactions between DNA, mRNA and proteins, as part of one entire network? Recently, scientists have made major steps towards answering this question. This approach ...