Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I met my first savant 52 years ago and have ...