While striped patterns have been a staple in both homes and closets for decades, there has been a major resurgence of them lately—not only in clothing but in interior design. Whether on ...

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 ...

How animal color patterns develop and evolve is a longstanding question in developmental biology. HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe ...