Genetics

Genetics

genes • gene editing • heredity• evolution • genetic variability • phenotypic variability • horizontal gene transfer • meiosis • recombination • epigenetics • DNA repair and replication • chromosome segregation • cell division • gene regulation • development • aging • pathogenesis • cancer • disease

Tyler Jacks
Faculty Spotlight

Tyler Jacks

Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; David H. Koch Professor of Biology; Daniel K. Ludwig Scholar for Cancer Research; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Tyler Jacks is interested in the genetic events contributing to the development of cancer, and his group has created a series of mouse strains engineered to carry mutations in genes known to be involved in human cancers.

An emerging view of RNA transcription and splicing

Study furthers radically new view of gene control

Multi “-omics” approach uncovers the riches of traditional global medicine

Genetic study takes research on sex differences to new heights

Researchers identify important proteins hijacked by pathogens during cell-to-cell spread

Unusual labmates: Lighting up the lab

Measuring chromosome imbalance could clarify cancer prognosis

A Troubling Inheritance