In March 2024, Christopher Burge experienced “intense abdominal pain,” as he describes it. Then he realized he had been feeling run down and unwell for a while. “I remember talking to my mom.

“The New Life Blueprint: A 21st Century Guide to Success, Health, Wealth, and Happiness in a Complex World” by Natalia Peart, Ph.D. with Christopher Burge, is released with Forbes Book ...

The Fugu genome contains all the alternative promoters and splice exons and introns present in mammalian genomes, but because the introns are so much smaller, genes are about an eighth the size, says ...

MIT investigator Christopher Burge and his colleagues—including splicing pioneer Phillip Sharp—have dedicated considerable effort toward resolving these mysteries. “The idea,” explains ...