Tag: genetics
Can Seabiscuit’s DNA explain his elite racing ability?
Steven Tammariello, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Seabiscuit was not an impressive-looking horse. He was considered quite lazy, preferring to eat and sleep...
Recreational ancestry DNA testing may reveal more than consumers bargained for
Catharine Wang, Boston University
Aggressive marketing techniques and the popularization of “gifting” recreational ancestry tests has led more consumers than ever to the world of...
Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...
Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego
Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...
Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now’s the...
Jessica Berg, Case Western Reserve University
The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they’ve successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took...
Can the study of epigenomics lead to personalized cancer treatment?
Fabian V. Filipp, University of California, Merced
Molecular insight into our own DNA is now possible, a field called personal genomics. Such approaches...
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn’t start when….
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene
Devon Stillwell, Johns Hopkins University
Angelina Jolie received much public attention for...
Viking women travelled too, genetic study reveals
By Daniel Zadik, University of Leicester
The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging their way along the coasts of...
Mom’s prenatal hardship turns baby’s genes on and off
By Suzanne King, McGill University
In January 1998 five days of freezing rain collapsed the electrical grid of the Canadian province of Québec. The storm...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
