Genetics
The latest news on genes and heredity, from CRISPR to DNA testing technology.
The ins and outs of wastewater surveillance.
CRISPR revolutionized gene editing. Should we be worried?
23andMe wants to sell you vacations based on your DNA. But what are they really basing that on?
Episode two of Vox’s new Netflix show tackles designer DNA.
“What’s happening is bigger than any one of us”: a conversation with historian Michael Bess.
“Our species has problems with violence.” —Biologist Robert Sapolsky
“I understand it takes a certain amount of guts to aim high.” —Aubrey de Grey
Embryo matchmakers make it easier for potential donors and recipients to find each other.
It’s been 20 years since my mother died of early onset, or younger onset, Alzheimer’s disease. She was 53. I was 17. Losing her — and realizing that I, too, could develop the disease — has haunted me ever since.
It’s a morally toxic goal. The sooner we stop pursuing it, the better.
Women are way more likely to experience motion sickness than men.
This is the latest deal the company says will advance research.
The rise and fall of STAP stem cells was a quick one.
This might be one of the better things that has ever come out of a comments section on the internet.
Thousands of people use 23andMe to seek out long-lost family members. They’re not always prepared for what they find. And new changes to the service’s settings could lead to even more of these revelations.
Lamarck may have been (sort of) right after all.
The political fights have cooled down, and the research is getting pretty hot.
He’s the first Nobel laureate to ever put his medal on the auction block.
New treatments like gene therapy, stem-cell therapy, and even bionic implants are already starting to restore some patients’ sight.
But researchers can get fairly close just with a blood sample. Here’s how.
If you drink a ton of coffee, this may be why
One biologist’s story of how genetic testing broke his family apart.
A guide to synthetic biology, often referred to as “genetic engineering on steroids”
Cultural assumptions have been clouding our understanding of XX and XY.