Jessa Netting

All Stories by Jessa Netting

  1. Genetics

    The Newly Sequenced Genome Bares All

    The mapped human genome begins to reveal its secrets.

  2. Health & Medicine

    One-Two Drug Punch Trips Up Leukemia

    A leukemia cell seals its own fate when researchers trap cancer-causing proteins in its nucleus.

  3. Do bacteria swap genes in deadly game?

    The genome of a toxic Escherichia coli strain shows that the pathogen had picked up chunks of DNA from unrelated, ineffective bacteria, acquiring unpleasant traits that can send people to the hospital.

  4. Cells have molecule for protein triage

    A molecule called CHIP slates bad proteins for destruction and may lead to heart disease therapies.