Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services ...

Luckily, acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer is here to unravel the tangled history of the science and pseudoscience surrounding heredity, in all its many forms. In his expansive, engrossing, and ...

Coming to terms with a genetic illness in the family can leave a person with many questions. What does this mean for me? What does this mean for my child? Will my family be affected? Genetic ...

Purpose: The aim of this article was to determine the accuracy and efficiency of World Wide Web (“Web”) resources to help nongeneticists answer four clinical questions about each of five common ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Sept. 16, 2010) --A new book, Speaking of Genetics: A Collection of Interviews, contains 22 interviews of prominent individuals in the field of genetics. The collection makes ...

Dr. Judy Garber, director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, answers listeners' questions about genetic testing. From NPR News, this is All Things ...

Genetics is the study of how living things pass traits or characteristics from one generation to another. Transmission and origin of specific inherited traits like colour of eyes, colour and texture ...

In the not-so-distant future, genetic testing will be a routine part of medical care. Doctors will screen for genes that influence your risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, or diabetes. They will ...

When it comes to genetic screening, it’s usually the prospective mothers who take the initiative on it. But what about the dads? Doesn’t it take two people to have a baby? Just in time for Father’s ...

Increasing acceptance that evolution can be ‘rapid’ (or ‘contemporary’) has generated growing interest in the consequences for ecology. The genetics and genomics of these ‘eco-evolutionary dynamics’ ...