When Barack Obama told a crowd at a campaign event on Tuesday, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” the McCain campaign swiftly took offense, claiming the analogy was directed at ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...

Genome-wide analysis of gene expression is the study of transcription at a genomic scale, also known as transcriptomics. Typically relying on data from microarrays or high throughput sequencing, it ...