culture, genetics

People carrying a certain gene variant that dictates fresh underarms are less likely to wear antiperspirant.

The crucial importance of language in the debate over the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests

The biological and social ramifications of skin pigmentation are too often ignored by scientists, teachers, and the general public.

In Chapter 3, "Out of the Tropics," author Nina G. Jablonski, explores the genes behind skin pigmentation and makes the distinction between color and race.

Researchers working in war-torn countries find hints to the molecular roots of posttraumatic stress disorder.

Learning the intricacies of your own genetic profile is a double-edged sword.

In Chapter , "Genes, Freaks, DNA," author Sam Kean draws parallels between the lives of Gregor Mendel and Johannes Friedrich Miescher, who both made scientific discoveries that were truly ahead of their times.

Geography might explain the treasure trove of genetic diversity among Scots.

The collective intelligence of thousands of video game players is helping researchers understand the regulation of more than 500 different disease genes.

Genomicist Mark Stoeckle and three high school students have taken do-it-yourself science to a new level. 

The story of a group of high school students who, with the help of a Rockefeller University researcher, conducted and published studies on the biological provenance of sushi and teas from around New York City.

Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.

A campus housing several national research institutes and private companies braces for rising waters in the Southeast Asian country.

An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.

August 2011's selection of notable quotes

“This is my trophy,” says biologist Michael Edidin, walking across his office at Johns Hopkins University to pick up two oversized clock hands, once part of the stately clock tower that still stands on the Baltimore campus. 

The Human Genome Project has generated nearly $800 billion in economic output and hundreds of thousands of jobs in genomics and related industries.

How to Catch a Robot Rat, On Fact and Fraud, Not a Chimp, Here Is a Human Being

In Chapter 2, "Progressive Desire," author Erika Lorraine Milam explores sexual selection’s incursion into evolutionary theory.