genetics, culture, genetics & genomics

Researchers encoded moving images in DNA within living cells.

Human Genome Project-Write; viruses are alpha predators; Zika and the Olympics

People tend to choose friends who share their genes, a study suggests.

Scientists who study the biological roots of sexual orientation should continue working with educators, policy-makers, and the public to put their data to good use.

Researching the causes of sexual orientation should be guided by scientific, not social, concerns.

Married couples have more similar DNA than random pairs of people, a study shows.

More than school or family environment, a child’s genetics influences high school exam results.

Biological tinkerers are not the risk that some have made them out to be, according to a new report.

This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.

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

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.

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.

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

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