Category: Genetics

Growing up playing soccer, I found it infuriating, and a little bit unfair, that some teammates effortlessly mastered new ball-handling techniques, passed fitness tests and …

Genetic tests have been in the news a lot lately, and The Big Money took a recent look at the "tricky territory" of genetic testing …

Adam Cole's sweet, folky tune has lyrics that biologists and moms (and especially biologists who are moms) will find irresistible, even though it's a little …

Population geneticist Carlos Bustamante, PhD, doesn't have a time machine. But even without one he's managed to peek into the genetic pasts of various ethnic …

Stanford researchers have developed a new, publicly available algorithm to help researchers more fully utilize the extraordinary wealth of information piling up as a result …

There's a good reason why these two are smiling. Cardiologist Euan Ashley, MD, and bioengineer Stephen Quake, PhD, are two members of an extensive team …

Well, it's not really your whole genome, but local biotech company 23andMe is having a today-only fire sale on their complete genetic testing package: from …

As a parent who has logged more than my share of frustrating hours with the 'I Spy' series of books my kids love, I've learned …

The new CBS film Extraordinary Measures, which opens in wide release tonight, describes a father's struggle to save his children from Pompe disease, a rare …

From Science Insider today comes an announcement of a newly minted effort to sequence 10,000 vertebrate genomes. The Genome 10K Project aims to create a …

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics, which holds patents to human genes known to detect …

New treatments for obesity, heart disease and skin disorders could be developed as a result of an international consortium's success in mapping the genome of …