Purpose: There is an expanding gap between the availability of direct-to-consumer whole genome testing and physician knowledge regarding interpretation of test results. Advances in the genomic ...

Genetics is the study of how living things receive common traits from previous generations. These traits are described by the genetic information carried by a molecule called DNA. The instructions for ...

For decades, high school teachers used Gregor Mendel and his pea plants to teach kids in ninth grade on up the fundamentals of genetics. Today’s kids don’t care beans about those peas. They want to ...

Lima pathologist Dr. Joseph Sreenan shows an eighth grade class from Heir Force Academy a cancerous colon specimen. The students visited the Mercy Health Graduate Medical Education Center on Tuesday ...

I love this photo. But bennybb is wrong. Yes daddies are different from mommies, that's true. But we babies, instead of being a blend of the two, we're going to go one way or another. After all, if ...

WE are surprised at the review of Waddington's “Introduction to Modern Genetics” by Dr. F. W. Sansome in NATURE of June 17, p. 1002. We are at a loss to know what the reviewer means when he says that ...

No field of science has changed more, or changed the world more, in the last 50 years than genetics – the study of how our physical and behavioural traits are inherited. These experiments illuminated ...