Sonia Fernandez
Humans live well beyond the reproductive phase of life — unlike many other animals. Why?
According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This ...
Controlling gene expression with light may lead to disease treatments
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara’s departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology have gotten a step ...
Enzyme’s ability to ‘hop’ as it moves along DNA offers tips on epigenetic gene expression
UC Santa Barbara researchers' discovery of a variation of an enzyme's ability to "hop" as it moves along DNA, modifying ...