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A team of Duke researchers has identified a group of human DNA sequences driving changes in brain development, digestion and immunity that seem to have evolved rapidly after our family line split from that of the chimpanzees, but before we split with the Neanderthals.

A new publication from the lab of Greg Wray, PhD, professor of biology, explores the developmental gene regulatory networks of sea urchins

Svati Shah received the Genomic and Precision Medicine Mentoring Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) at the AHA’s Scientific Sessions in Chicago, Illinois, on November 5.

A deeply emotional experience with cancer and a fortunate discovery of the work being conducted by Bruce Donald, PhD, helped Ten63 Therapeutics began to take shape.

  On 11/17/22, faculty in the School of Medicine joined the Office for Faculty in a discussion of the process and pathways for promotion in the clinical sciences.

Priya Kishnani received one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors, the North Carolina Award, on November 15 for her contributions to science.

It’s not enough to just publish a great scientific paper. Somebody else has to think it’s great too and include the work in the references at the end of their paper, the citations. The more citations a paper gets, presumably the more important and influential it is. That’s how science works — you know, the whole standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants thing.

Woonyung Hur Cell Biology Stefano Di Talia, Ph.D. "Organization principles of the early Drosophila embryo" Jeffrey Letourneau

The microbes that help break down food actually tell the gut how to do its job better.

Duke researchers are gaining a better understanding of how nutrient deprivation affects development.