Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s views of modern medical genetics have to be evaluated independently of her radical, revisionist history of eugenics (“Medical Genetics Is Not Eugenics,” The Chronicle Review, May ...

This release is available in German. The early history of genetics has to be re-written in the light of new findings. Scientists from the University Jena (Germany) in co-operation with colleagues from ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

Part One interweaves present-day stories with the discoveries of pioneers in genetics. Part One interweaves the present-day story of the Rosens, a young family on an odyssey to find a cure for their ...

(CN) — A founder event — the formation of a new population from a small number of ancestral individuals — can be set off by a dramatic reduction of the original group or migration. These events ...

Archeological digs have told us a lot about human history, but genetic tools have been able to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge, and offer different perspectives on some findings. Researchers ...

If you had a genetic predisposition for cancer, would you want to know? Some people hesitate — why worry about something you can’t control? But Marianne Vivien, MS, LCGC, a genetics counselor at ...