A reader emailed me to ask what I thought would be a good way to better understand some of the more technical posts I put up. First, two course notes which I've found useful as personal references: - ...

Genetic research advances will continue to result in clinical applications for genetics in primary care settings. Fluency with the evolving genetic terminology will enable primary care providers to ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

I'm looking for a good book that can give me a decent overview of genetics and related fields in the hopes that I can following along with some of the Nobel Intent articles. Sort of a "brief history ...

The language a medical or human geneticist uses is slightly different from the language that a bacterial geneticist, mouse geneticist, or a clinician might use. Furthermore, the language continues to ...