COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Sept. 14, 2009) - Many human diseases-including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, cancer, and cardiovascular disease-are caused by multiple genetic variants and the ...

Imagine we could vanquish all viruses. We'd never get swine flu or viral meningitis. We'd be done with AIDS. And these beautiful endings wouldn't come from some brash new medicine. Instead, we'd use ...

Edited by: ISBN: 978-0-8153-4509-1 Published by: Garland Science, 2015 Price:£22.95/$50.00 Introducing Genetics pleasantly surprises, not just by the pretty cover, but even more so by the thorough yet ...

These books make for great additions to a school or classroom library. They can be used to enrich learning about lifecycles and reproduction by giving students a gentle introduction to DNA and ...

1. In the contentious and polarizing world of politics, it isn’t surprising for a memoir to spark both rage and delight. The world of science is supposed to be more reasoned, objective—and staid. So ...

Eric Joyce does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

In 2018, Dr. Claudia Gonzaga-Jáuregui, who years before had completed her doctorate studies in Dr. James R. Lupski's lab at Baylor College of Medicine, received an email from an editor at Elsevier's ...

Bruno Rozzi had just finished his sophomore year as a finance student at ASU when he came across a genetics book he had read once in high school. Two years later, he was in a rainforest in Panama ...

If you’ve been reading along with our KELOLAND Living Book Club pick this month, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, you’ve found yourself thrust into a fascinating science biography and the ...

Six years have passed since the third edition of this work appeared, but so rapid are the additions to knowledge of genetics, and so rapid also the changes of opinion of geneticists, that several ...

These activities introduce ideas about heredity, observing the differences and similarities in a population, and modeling how inheritance works. Campers can think about organisms as systems in which ...