Genetics

Genetic engineering will bring us new Bolts and Shaqs.

Despite the hyperbole, private funding is changing the science of aging for the better.

Getting control of the molecular mechanisms that drive rapid mutations.

Did sexual reproduction evolve to keep up with mitochondrial mutation?

A new field called paleoepigenetics is probing how evolution responds to sudden stress.

The forgotten story of the woman who discovered how animals get their shape.

Epigenetics and behaviorism suggest the ancient Greeks were right.