Families betrayed by their own genesTwo books explore the DNA mutations that made two families highly susceptible to diseases like cancer and schizophrenia
Remodelling the human genomeThe quest to understand the human genome, the instructions that rule our form, our function and, more than we would wish, our fate
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s intimate history of the geneThe author of The Emperor of All Maladies gives us a new book that’s beautifully written and deeply personal
Junk DNA: How much of our genetic material pulls its weight?Science can’t decide if our genes have more or less value than the Baldwin brothers
Inheritance battles Author Nicholas Wade argues that human genetic differences have played a powerful role in the success and failure of societies
Race and racing: An English icon wades into the ’slave genes’ controversySir Roger Bannister raises a controversial thesis at the London Olympic Games
Canadians love to cuddle up to their furless friendsEven though they stink, they’re ugly and they’re high maintenance
Are they white—or brown?It doesn’t take a scientist to tell a polar bear and a brown bear apart. Or does it?