Genetics
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Plants Fight for Their Lives
As arable land disappears, a genetic tweak might secure the world’s food supply. -
The Rise of RNA Therapeutics
DNA mutations are hard to fix. Scientists are trying another approach. -
Data Crunchers to the Rescue
Genetic diseases that puzzle lab scientists are being solved by quantitative biologists. -
How Genetic Mutations Turned the Coronavirus Deadly
Tracing the path of a pandemic. -
How Your Body Knows What Time It Is
Uncovering the molecules that keep our mind and body in a daily rhythm.
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Gene Drives Reach Mammals
A new genetic technology that can quickly change entire populations gets broader.
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It’s the End of the Gene As We Know It
We are not nearly as determined by our genes as once thought.
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What’s Wrong with Bananas
How industrial agriculture stole sex from our most important fresh fruit crop.
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How Genes Refract Chance
The geneticist Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the influence of modern genetics on our ideas of chance and fate. -
Social Inequality Leaves a Genetic Mark
When genetic structure follows social structure. -
Heredity Beyond the Gene
What you pass on to your kids isn’t always in your genetic code. -
It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible. -
How Hidden Social Contexts Influence Your Genetics
Educational attainment has some qualitatively unique features that we’re going to have to be sensitive to when we attempt to study the genetics of it.Photograph by Joey Yee / Flickr What if a wound of yours, a pierced ear, say, healed at a different rate depending on who was around you? A 2017 study explored […]
