A fascinating overview of our current knowledge of the Peopling of the Americas based on scientific evidence from a number of disciplines along with illuminating discussions of where and why ...

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age is precisely what its title claims it to be. Biologist Matthew Cobb (The Idea of the Brain) has examined both the potential and dangers of genetic ...

DNA was characterized in 1953 by James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin at King’s College London. The nature of the genetic code, which uses codons, strings of three ...

When applying ethical principles to the role of race in genomics, autonomy supports both the providing of information to an individual and the individual’s right to remain uninformed. The ethical ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...

The diagnosis of a genetic disorder and test results have wide-ranging implications for patients and their families. 19 Genetic information can have a strong emotional impact, such as feelings of ...