Thousands of short RNA molecules with diverse genetic sequences serve as security guards to identify and silence attempts to invade the genome, such as DNA inserted by viruses or parasitic elements known as transposons.

Biologists Manyuan Long and Nick VanKuren show how relatively young gopies of a gene in fruit flies helps resolve selective pressures on Males and females.

Carole Ober has been named the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor in Human Genetics and the College.   Seventeen faculty members received named professorships or were appointed distinguished service professors.

UChicago Biosciences' distinctive Quantitative Biology Bootcamp at MBL, now in its third year, has been awarded funding through the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award is part of the NSF's Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program. IN 2017, IGE funded ten projects that "pilot, test and validate" new methods in graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).