James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

For more than 50 years scientists have operated under a set of seemingly incontrovertible assumptions about genes, gene expression, and the consequences thereof. Their mantra: One gene yields one ...

There are, no doubt, profound ethical concerns associated with human cloning experiments as well as innumerable safety and health uncertainties. Would human clones be more susceptible to disease?

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This article is no longer available. Because of the terms of The Chronicle’s agreement with the publisher/author, the article “The Mythical Threat of Genetic Determinism,” by Daniel C. Dennett, is no ...

You should never look a gift horse in the mouth, but you just might want to look in its genes. Just as humans artificially bred bulldogs from domesticated wolves, they've also tampered with equines, ...

A middle-aged white man raises his sword to the skies and roars to the gods. The results of his genetic ancestry test have just arrived in his suburban mailbox. His eyes fill with tears as he learns ...

Many geneticists are disgruntled with the coverage of genetics in the mass media, yet geneticists themselves have a part to play in improving that coverage. This article aims to help geneticists to do ...

If Steven Pinker’s latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the final demoliti By signing up ...

Last month, Newsweek tried to put a new face on anorexia. No, not the doe-eyed brunette on the magazine’s cover, but the article inside trumpeting the latest theory about the disease: It’s genetic.