In this issue, read about how organisms carefully control the activity of genes, turning them on and off at specific times and in specific locations. And listen to our latest podcast featuring Lasker Laureate John Jumper.

How Genes Express Themselves

How do cells activate or silence genes? Read about the Lasker Laureates who devised ingenious experimental methods, leveraged offbeat model organisms, and capitalized on underappreciated observations to understand how organisms carefully control gene activity.

We ask a scientist

We Ask a Scientist: John Jumper

Listen to the latest episode of our podcast featuring John Jumper who explains why it is important to “grind through medium to small ideas” to make progress and how intuition is “absolutely everything.”