Genetics

Your DNA is a snitch Your DNA is a snitch

Today's simple genetic tests can reveal your private nature. Just don't expect it to stay secret.
By Peter Dizikes Feb 17, 2009

  • Turning 50: It's all downhill from here

    I've got only a genetic disease and old age to look forward to
    By Cary Tennis October 6, 2009

  • Born that gay

    Do recent neurological studies prove once and for all that homosexuality is biological?
    By Robert Burton September 12, 2008

  • Old McDonald had a pharm

    And genetically modified his goats and chickens to produce drugs for humans. But hold on. Should we be doing this to animals?
    By Elizabeth Svoboda June 11, 2008

  • Should biotech piggy go to market?

    Consumer advocates worry that the FDA is throwing open the barn door to genetically engineered animals too quickly.
    By Rebecca Clarren March 4, 2008

  • My daughter's father might be the other guy

    I never gave it a second thought until somebody said she looked Czech
    By Cary Tennis September 1, 2009

  • Is a need for skinny jeans in the genes?

    New evidence finds that anorexia may be at least partly genetic.
    By Carol Lloyd December 6, 2007

  • Craig Venter is the future

    The most groundbreaking science is being done outside academia and government. And the egomaniacal geneticist is leading the way.
    By Jonathon Keats December 5, 2007

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The Suns get tough just in time to tie the Spurs and salvage their season. Plus: Are prosthetic legs fair in a race?
    May 15, 2007

  • Bionic parents and techno-children

    Author Liza Mundy talks about "designer babies," the "epidemic" of twins, and why assisted reproduction is the world's biggest social experiment.
    By Lynn Harris May 9, 2007

  • Are we playing dice with the biosphere?

    Veteran tech writer Denise Caruso warns us how little we really know about genetic engineering -- and says there's a smarter way to place bets on new technology.
    By Scott Rosenberg March 12, 2007

  • Synthetic biologists: We're not irresponsible

    An M.I.T. biological engineering professor rejects the ETC Group's critique
    By Andrew Leonard January 18, 2007

  • Fun with synthetic biology

    An enyzme here, an enzyme there, pretty soon you're talking serious ecological mayhem.
    By Andrew Leonard January 17, 2007

  • "Fat Soap"? Fat chance

    Nothing about this product is "Jurassic."
    By David Puner December 19, 2006

  • Love, or biology?

    Research suggests that women prefer men whose genetic makeup differs from their own.
    By Adrienne So December 13, 2006

  • Fainting goats - just horsing around?

    Genetic disorders in animals are wacky.
    By David Puner December 13, 2006

  • The mothers of all Jewish mothers

    The ancestry of 40 percent of Ashkenazi Jews is traced to four women.
    By Lynn Harris January 18, 2006

  • Women more likely to inherit depression

    A new study suggests women's "variable hormonal environment" makes them more susceptible.
    By Page Rockwell January 10, 2006

  • Nanomedicine's brave new world

    In just a few years, doctors will know everyone's genetic identity. This knowledge will be a blessing -- and a curse.
    By Alan H. Goldstein November 28, 2005

  • Pink? Blue? Take your pick

    200 couples choose the gender of their babies in a study of why they'd want to.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 27, 2005

  • The Big Idea: Accelerated Bioremediation

    Genetically engineering bacteria to eat our most toxic Superfund sites for dinner.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 21, 2005

  • Just like a woman

    Lawrence Summers was right about one thing: There are innate differences between males and females. And if we want everyone to succeed, we shouldn't dismiss them.
    By Lorraine Dusky March 2, 2005

  • Decoding humanity, down to the last atom

    Glyn Moody's "Digital Code of Life" tells the story of the bioinformatic revolution: The merging of computers and molecular biology.
    By Andrew Leonard March 15, 2004

  • One vote for the new eugenics

    Yes, genetics research can alleviate suffering. But in our consumerist, narcissistic society, it's ultimately about producing perfect people. Part 2 of "How I Decoded the Human Genome."
    By John Sundman October 22, 2003

  • A mind of their own

    In his compelling book "Nature via Nurture," Matt Ridley explains how genes don't serve as blueprints for behavior, but instead interact with the environment to create who we are.
    By Kurt Kleiner June 19, 2003
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