genetics

Two books explore the DNA mutations that made two families highly susceptible to diseases like cancer and schizophrenia

The quest to understand the human genome, the instructions that rule our form, our function and, more than we would wish, our fate

The author of The Emperor of All Maladies gives us a new book that’s beautifully written and deeply personal

Science can’t decide if our genes have more or less value than the Baldwin brothers

Author Nicholas Wade argues that human genetic differences have played a powerful role in the success and failure of societies

Sir Roger Bannister raises a controversial thesis at the London Olympic Games

Even though they stink, they’re ugly and they’re high maintenance

It doesn’t take a scientist to tell a polar bear and a brown bear apart. Or does it?

...is the one you (almost) fail.

Incoming students at Berkeley given gene-testing kit