Back in 1952, Turing suggested that natural biological patterns like stripes or spots could form in the presence of two molecules: a slow-moving activator and a fast-moving inhibitor. The activator ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

These mysterious forms ... analyzed for unfamiliar patterns. Obelisks share some traits with viroids—infectious RNA loops known to affect plants—but exist in human-associated bacteria.

X Chromosome–Linked Dominant Single-Gene Diseases Few dominantly inherited forms of human disease are X chromosome ... exhibit a more complex inheritance pattern and are associated with ...