On Genetics

In my previous post , I asked whether the way that one sees the now famous dress might have a genetic influence and invited people to sen...

I am very curious about whether the dress illusion might have a genetic basis. I'm referring to differences in the way that people see t...

Among the popular myths about human genetics left over from the era of eugenics, social Darwinism and racism, two are especially relevant ...

A gene is all of the DNA elements required in cis for the properly regulated production of a set of RNAs whose sequences overlap in the g...

A friend asked my view, so I read the recent article by Michael Pollan in the New Yorker, " The Intelligent Plant . " Michae...

This week saw the publication of dozens of papers in Nature, Science and Genome Research that report an initial analysis of data from the E...