Genetics

Blame it on the genes

How horse genetics and human culture co-evolved

How much we enjoy music, and in what ways, is heritable

Some plants lure pollinators with the stench of decay using a gene related to one that fights odor in human breath

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg explores the ethics of human specimen collections in Is a Biobank a Home?

Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation?

What snakes, ferrets, and elephants are revealing about cancer resistance

New DNA studies reveal more benefits from our hominin friends

Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.

Geneticist Paul Nurse on his Nobel Prize-winning discovery, the importance of failure, and a revelation about his own origins.

Richard Dawkins’ hypothesis buries a crucial part of life’s story.

A medicine that disrupts the DNA replication of cancer cells may be within reach.